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People often ask me to compare working for Bezos vs Zuck. I worked with Mark much more closely for much longer, but I did work directly with Jeff in my last 2 years at Amazon incubating the Kindle. Here are some thoughts on similarities that make them both generational leaders:

I’ve always wondered how CEO’s run billion dollar companies and thought "could I do that?" Then I learned from a friend at Salesforce how Marc Benioff does it with his executive team, and it blew my mind how simple it was. Here’s how he does it: 1) Each team leader submits a

I hate to say it, but I think Jason ✨👾SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12✨ Lemkin is right. SF is back.

Probably one of the coolest activations I've ever been involved with... HubSpot wanted a presence at the U.S. Open What did we do? Wrap the 7 train to Flushing 🎾

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The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild: 40 direct reports. No 1:1s. No formal planning cycles. And no status reports. In a recent interview, he went in-depth on his Leadership style. Every entrepreneur must understand why it works:

Here are 12 haunting quotes from Abraham Lincoln that changed my life forever after reading them only once. (And I promise they will change yours too)​ You better read them:

Brian Chesky on going ‘Founder Mode’ during the pandemic Chesky describes the recent shift in his management style: “I totally changed how I ran the company. I used to be very hands off. I democratized data. I was very much reactive and I thought my job was strategy and capital

Really good advice from a really good introvert.

Very good article about “founder mode”CEO’s vs “manager mode” CEO’s. paulgraham.com/foundermode.ht…

I feel like the CEO playbook is being rewritten by Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk. I like where this is all heading.

I think one of the secrets to HubSpot's modest success is that we really invested in our ecosystem. I feel like when folks are making a decision about CRM (and many of things), it is as much product v product as "ecosystem v ecosystem."

The 3 phases of startup sales leaders: 0-2: Founder leads it 2-20: Really good sales person leads it 20-200: Really operationally rigorous sales leader leads it. Leverage shifts from deal making to comp planning, territory planning, etc as you move from startup to scaleup.

Stripe founder John Collison explains his product principle of “talking up to the user” John believes current consumer product thinking can be harmful: “You have users by the wheelbarrow. You treat them in aggregate. You talk about MAUs. Everything is statistical and everything

The skepticism around AI's ROI today feels a lot like the doubts people had about the internet in its early days. Back then, no one could fully grasp how much the web would transform our lives, and now AI is on the same path. Yes, it might be tough to measure immediate returns,

The IPO window is basically closed as is the large m&a window (regulators). We’re going to have a mountain of “stuck” venture backed software companies.

If I were to do "international" again from scratch, I'd organize as follows: 1. Europe - they all rhyme 2. Japan & Korea - they rhyme 3. Rest of Asia/ANZ - they all rhyme 4. India - doesn't rhyme 5. South America - they all rhyme 6. Brazil - doesn't rhyme

Preparing my lecture for my Sloan course today on "Strategy Lessons From The Grateful Dead" 😀