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Senra: CEOs Should Design Companies for Themselves, Not Future Successors
“He designs, he believes the founder or the leader should design the company, not for like what's necessarily best, like after they leave, but literally what's best for what they're doing now. He says, ultimately my E staff, which is his direct ports, ultimatel…”
Senra: Founders run companies based on their personality, not one archetype
“One thing that was like striking that missing from that essay is the fact like, you know, like it was like, well, there's a manager runs a company one way and a founder runs a company in one way. It's like, no, like the founder runs it based on the personality…”
Senra: Ramp co-founder Karim Atiyeh optimizes hiring for spikes over well-roundedness
“What Kareem is interested in is not like your total package. He's interested in your very best idea. So like, if you were the very best at X and he just wants you to do that for ramp. And if you only last for six months, that's fine. It's like, he just, he opt…”
Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x
“Steve jobs says that he's like, you can never, ever, ever, ever forget the dynamic range of human beings that most things in life you know, between the average to the best, it's like two to three, two, two times best, three times quality, where he's like, in s…”
Senra: Elite operators obtain proprietary information by charming gatekeepers
“This idea of like buttering up, you know, the gatekeepers inside of a business, like that David Geffen's biography, he talks about, he had a huge advantage doing that. Michael Ovitz, I just did two episodes on Michael Ovitz, same situation. Like they're always…”
Senra: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Griffin, and Walton won through faster tech investment
“They all have in common that they invest in technology, the savings compound, and it could be gives you an advantage over slower moving competitors, and it could be a, the difference between a profit and a loss, and if you go back and look at Rockefeller, Carn…”