A Quote by Keith Rabois
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
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It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.
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