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Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive...

Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square. Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom prior to each company's initial public offering ("IPO") and sits on both companies' boards of directors. He is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia, a group that includes PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Elon Musk.

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Good morning, Today’s Stratechery Interview is with Eric Wu, the founder and CEO of Opendoor. Opendoor is very much in the middle of testing the thesis that homebuying can survive a market downturn. The company had huge losses in the third quarter as it sold inventory at steep discounts and discoun
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Keith Rabois 2 months ago

Worth reading.

Silicon Valley Can’t Be Neutral in the U.S.-China Cold War
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Keith Rabois 7 months ago

read this:

Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight: Here's how to think about choosing a job. Here's how to be a better mana
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Keith Rabois 8 months ago

Read this.

Low interest rates and a flood of fast dumb late-stage capital has jacked up artificial paper venture returns. This has had several effects:
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Keith Rabois 9 months ago

Read this thread.

Max Rhodes is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Faire, the online marketplace where retailers discover their next bestsellers from independent brands across the globe. To date, Max has raised over $1.1BN with Faire from some of the best including Sequoia, Founders Fund, DST, Forerunner, Lightspeed and many m
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Keith Rabois 11 months ago

Same. Definitely worth listening too.

People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them.
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Keith Rabois 11 months ago

Excellent post on why “process” is a bug, not a feature, for startups:

For this year’s year in review, I wanted a true long-time insider’s perspective. Auston Bunsen was one of the first developers and tech entrepreneurs I met in Miami, from back in the early SuperConf days. Read his review of this truly pivotal year -- and what led up to it, and what it means for 2021
www.refreshmiami.com
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Keith Rabois 1 year ago

Excellent post (with details) on the Miami movement.

The entire Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
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Keith Rabois 1 year ago

Fantastic post.

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything - Apple TV+ Press
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Keith Rabois 1 year ago

Recommend watching 1971: The Year Music Changed the World.

One of Israel’s most successful venture capitalists uses the words and actions of the Hebrew patriarchs to lay the foundations for a modern growth economy based on timeless business principles and values. Entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors are constantly looking for principles and rules that
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Keith Rabois 1 year ago

All founders should read this book.

In the Company of Giants presents groundbreaking conversations conducted with 16 of the digital world's most successful personalities: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, T. J. Rodgers, Gordon Eubanks, Steve Case, Scott Cook, Sandy Kurtzig, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Michael Dell, Charles Wang, Andy Grov
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Keith Rabois 1 year ago

best book!

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*Description from Goodreads:* “The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you’re willing to risk the consequences.” —from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age,
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