Many of you know about the 80/20 rule or, more fancifully, the Pareto Principle. In 1906 Vilfredo Pareto noticed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people and, since then, the Pareto Principle pops up all over the place. We see all it all over startups across time, team, […]
We have a joke amongst my college friends. After a rough comment, night, weekend, or just overall performance you’d like to have back we’ll say “I need a rebrand”. Rebrands are all the rage these days. Whether it’s Facebook’s transition to Meta, Microsoft branding itself a metaverse company, the explosion of web3 vocabulary, or even Adam Neumann (!) reappearing this week to announce WeWork’s rapid rise “went to my head” it is undoubtedly rebrand season.
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I met up with a bunch of old coworkers last night for drinks. Which admittedly is making it hard to churn out these words. So I’m going to keep it brief. It feels good to catch up with the people you’ve fought battles with in those early messy startup days. Recounting funny stories and hearing […]
1.) Meta..World Peace?
2.) Tesla $1T Cap
3.) Apple Ads Fallout
There’s nothing like that first day of school feeling. Or you know, as an adult, the first day of a new job. New surroundings, new people you’re excited to work with, and new problems to solve. It’s pretty easy to be enthusiastic and hit the ground running with all that newness. You make all sorts of promises to yourself about your preparation and new ideas!
1.) Bitcoin (is the) Futures
2.) A-Z Workforce Constraints
3.) Google Commission Cut
4.) PayPal/Pinterest Courtship
It is the trials, tribulations, and just plain stupid mistakes we go through as managers that create indelible lessons in leadership. The “how could I possibly be that dumb” moments we all share. Publicly and privately. To set the stage, I bring you two tweetstorms from Ali Partovi who had startup twitter madly liking and retweeting these last couple weeks with a couple painful career memories:
1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring 2.) GitLab’s Strong Debut 3.) LinkedIn Returns West 4.) Supply Chains Are Stuck 1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring: after the explosive revenue OpenSea, Dapper Labs, & others have captured was there any doubt Coinbase wouldn’t eventually enter the ring? Their waitlist is already 1M+ strong, their job board is […]
A healthy employee – manager relationship wants a thousand things, a sick employee – manager relationship only wants one. Or so the saying approximately goes. In conversations with many of you over these past few weeks it’s clear that we learn from our all our managers, both good and bad.