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Keith Rabois on the “one person, one problem" framework he learned from Peter Thiel “You need to spend a lot of time focusing people. This is something I learned from Peter Thiel. He used to insist at PayPal that every single person could only do exactly one thing. And... we all rebelled. You feel like it’s insulting to be asked to do just one thing, but Peter would enforce this pretty strictly.” Thiel would say: “I will not talk to you about anything else except for this one thing that I’ve assigned to you. I don’t want to hear about how great your doing in this other area. Just focus until you conquer this one problem.” Keith explains: “The insight behind this is that most people will solve problems that they understand how to solve. Roughly speaking, they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high-impact problems for your company but they’re difficult—you don’t wake up in the morning with a solution to them, so you tend to procrastinate… If you have a company that’s always solving B+ problems, you’ll grow and add value, but you’ll never create the breakthrough idea because no one is spending 100% of their time banging their head against the wall every day until they solve it.” Video source: Y Combinator (2014)show more

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Adam M. Adamek, PhD1 year ago

Most companies drown in B+ solutions because they’re easier, but breakthroughs demand relentless obsession. Are you solving what matters or just what’s convenient?

Plutus1 year ago

How about solving 'A+'s at the same time, say, like Elon Musk?

Ray | AI marketer - Social Media Assistant1 year ago

Focusing people is tough. AI can handle repetitive tasks, freeing up time for real problem-solving.

Neil Hudson1 year ago

What if a person isn’t interested in the problem assigned to them?

Peter Chronz1 year ago

It’s far too easy and common to spend whole days just on C-D problems. Basically just busy work. It’s sneaky because it often feels very productive.

Paul Guardiola1 year ago

Thanks for sharing.

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Jensen Huang explains how he designed NVIDIA from first principles “With respect to building a company, the first thing you have to do—as with all problems—is start from first principles. What is this machine that we’re trying to create? What is its input? What is its output? What are the conditions that it’s in? What is the industry like? Is it a fast moving industry? Is it a bureaucratic industry? Is it a highly regulated industry? And what are you trying to build?” Thinking about it from this perspective, there were several things Jensen wanted to do with the company: “I wanted to create a company that naturally attracts amazing people, and the reason for that is our company’s mission is to solve computing problems that are barely possible.” He also wanted a company that was “as small as possible” and “empowered people.” “If you want an organization that obeys command and control, then you make it a pyramid just like the military—all the way back to the Roman Empire. But If you want to empower people, you want to make it as flat as possible so that information travels quickly.” He continues: “We also don’t have business units. We don’t have divisions. Everybody works as one, and the company is shaped in a way that allows us to build accelerated computing best.” Video source: Sana (2023)

Jensen Huang explains how he designed NVIDIA from first principles “With respect to building a company, the first thing you have to do—as with all problems—is start from first principles. What is this machine that we’re trying to create? What is its input? What is its output? What are the conditions that it’s in? What is the industry like? Is it a fast moving industry? Is it a bureaucratic industry? Is it a highly regulated industry? And what are you trying to build?” Thinking about it from this perspective, there were several things Jensen wanted to do with the company: “I wanted to create a company that naturally attracts amazing people, and the reason for that is our company’s mission is to solve computing problems that are barely possible.” He also wanted a company that was “as small as possible” and “empowered people.” “If you want an organization that obeys command and control, then you make it a pyramid just like the military—all the way back to the Roman Empire. But If you want to empower people, you want to make it as flat as possible so that information travels quickly.” He continues: “We also don’t have business units. We don’t have divisions. Everybody works as one, and the company is shaped in a way that allows us to build accelerated computing best.” Video source: Sana (2023)

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63,899 views • 9 months ago

When the government was building markets. This was the idea. But because we are so indisciplined we must sell on the side of the road even when its dangerous and unhygienic. Some problems are not government problems or politician problems. Look inward and ask yourself, do you want Kenya to be a first class country? are you a first class citizen? Are you a useful voter or just tribal joker with a voters card who confirms that democracy is a mistake? How is it that every time you are disappointed with a politician you gravitate towards a worse one to solve the problem.

When the government was building markets. This was the idea. But because we are so indisciplined we must sell on the side of the road even when its dangerous and unhygienic. Some problems are not government problems or politician problems. Look inward and ask yourself, do you want Kenya to be a first class country? are you a first class citizen? Are you a useful voter or just tribal joker with a voters card who confirms that democracy is a mistake? How is it that every time you are disappointed with a politician you gravitate towards a worse one to solve the problem.

Morara Kebaso

38,283 views • 2 months ago

Alex Karp shares Palantir’s secret to sales: “We hope you go to an LLM company.” “No matter how bad this conference is, we could never sell you like they’ll sell you, which is—giving you something that makes you feel smart while your business goes out of business.” “You’re going to go home feeling poorer and less safe.” “You’ll buy the product, and pay a lot in tokens, and it’s going to be very hard to understand how it helps you.” “But investors will know you’re smart.” “Feel free to go learn about that and you’ll find: there’s a myriad of problems these models solve, and an even bigger amount of problems they create.”

Alex Karp shares Palantir’s secret to sales: “We hope you go to an LLM company.” “No matter how bad this conference is, we could never sell you like they’ll sell you, which is—giving you something that makes you feel smart while your business goes out of business.” “You’re going to go home feeling poorer and less safe.” “You’ll buy the product, and pay a lot in tokens, and it’s going to be very hard to understand how it helps you.” “But investors will know you’re smart.” “Feel free to go learn about that and you’ll find: there’s a myriad of problems these models solve, and an even bigger amount of problems they create.”

Jawwwn

144,740 views • 17 days ago