Alex LaBossiere
@laboss • 2,937 subscribers
Technology enthusiast. Podcast: https://t.co/tEDGjzPfY6
Videos
I sat down with Keith Rabois (Keith Rabois), General Partner Founders Fund and CEO of OpenStore. We spoke about spotting talent, the intricacies of founding vs investing, companies as cults, why you shouldn’t stretch, Keith’s requests for startups, and much more. 0:00 - Intro 2:35 - Bomb-Building and the PayPal Mafia 5:10 - Spotting Talent 11:32 - Where Keith is 1000:1 16:14 - PayPal, Regulation, and Law 22:00 - Regulatory Arbitrage 25:03 - AI 27:46 - Keith’s 5 Bosses 31:04 - How to Operate 34:16 - OpenStore 39:33 - Founding vs Investing 42:48 - Requests for Startups 47:39 - Early-Stage Investing 53:46 - Companies as Cults 56:42 - The Future of Venture 1:00:56 - Not Stretching, Engineering Serendipity, and How to Ask Better Questions 1:06:40 - On Keith 1:08:45 - Time Allocation, Self-Grading, Values, Reading and Legacy 1:16:11 - What Should More People be Thinking About?
Alex LaBossiere344,926 views • 2 years ago
I sat down a second time with Keith Rabois (Keith Rabois), General Partner at Khosla Ventures and CEO at OpenStore to talk operating. We spoke about the Hollywood model of startups, picking co-founders, identifying, attracting and assessing talent, raising capital, building a board, delegating, metrics, and knowing what to measure. 0:00 - Intro 1:56 - Great Founders and the Bottleneck to Innovation 4:35 - Vertical Integration 6:24 - The Hollywood Model of Startups 7:41 - The “Why Now?” in Company-Building 9:50 - Multi-Product Companies 10:58 - Iteration and Pivots 12:52 - Picking Co-Founders 14:51 - Identifying Mispriced Talent 17:20 - Attracting Talent 20:57 - Assessing Talent 24:02 - Doing References 25:56 - Closing Hires 28:28 - Thinking 6 Months Ahead 31:36 - How Long Should You Interview For? 33:28 - Creating a Monopoly on Talent 35:44 - Raising Capital 37:40 - Screening Investors 41:21 - Building a Board 44:11 - Triaging and Identifying Problems 47:59 - Writing vs Editing and Consistent Voice 49:34 - Creating Transparency 50:50 - Barrels and Ammunition 54:55 - Task-Relevant Maturity 56:40 - On Delegating 59:21 - Measuring Inputs vs Outputs 1:02:58 - Underrated Metrics 1:05:22 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?
Alex LaBossiere139,220 views • 1 year ago
Sat down with Elad Gil — entrepreneur, investor and future-forward optimist. We spoke about blank slates, declining institutions, optimism, investing versus operating, the deferral of adulthood, the deterioration of speed, defense tech, human capital flows, and what happens when AI exports French culture. 0:00 - Intro 6:11 - Blank Slates and Decaying Institutions 8:16 - Western Pessimism and Agendas of Abundance vs Scarcity 12:30 - The Long Boom: Is Innovation Speeding Up? 16:26 - Are Startups Founder Limited or Market Limited? 19:26 - EIR Syndrome and Choosing the Right Market 21:41 - What Makes for a Good Investor, Operator and Entrepreneur? 24:05 - Positives and Negatives of Investing and Operating 26:17 - The Brand Value of Individuals vs Institutions 28:05 - Competing with Massive Firms 30:33 - Market-Driven Investing 33:23 - Starting Companies as Surfing Waves 36:09 - Age of Accomplishment and The Deferral of Adulthood 42:15 - What to Say Yes To 44:21 - Defense Tech and Complacency 49:25 - Private Markets and The Future of Venture 52:11 - Discontinuities in AI 53:49 - On Google 55:16 - LLM Oligopoly and Long-Term Scenarios for AI 1:00:41 - AGI and Sleeping 3 Hours a Night 1:03:19 - AI Doomerism 1:06:05 - The Deterioration of Speed 1:09:27 - Bureaucracy and the State of Nuclear 1:12:52 - Generosity and the Culture of Silicon Valley 1:15:19 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?
Alex LaBossiere50,019 views • 2 years ago
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