VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

Karen goes deeper on this topic in her book, The Sounds of Life. Much of my learning came from conversations with interesting people, including Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix, Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca, and many other professors, entrepreneurs, VCs and philanthropists.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is an example of how a math background can lead to entrepreneurial success. Before founding Netflix, Hastings earned degrees in math and computer science, and he even taught high school math for a while. Today, Hastings earns $24 million a year, and his company is worth $143 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2019

One gamechanger: when Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, published the Netflix culture deck online in 2009. Hastings wanted potential job candidates to truly grasp what Netflix was about so he could attract the right talent. Don’t dance around the topic of culture itself, focus on it. But the deck did far more.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

With his usual awesome first principles focus, my friend Reed Hastings has articulated that the fundamental responsibility of the board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO. Worse, when I looked for good writings on the topic, I couldn’t find any.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Often your mentoring will be focused on topics like how to raise money (and making connections for the startup CEO), how to recruit, how to manage your Board and investor relationships, how to sell, etc. You’ll be able to help these companies better as a mentor. Those are applicable to all sectors of startups.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

To learn more about the role and value of a chief of staff, I recommend that you read Ben’s essay on the topic, “10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman,” which you can find on his personal website, Casnocha.com. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings warned our Stanford class, “[When I was running Pure Software,] I felt like investing in me was selfish.

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