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20VC: Dropbox's Drew Houston on Leadership; Hiring, Firing, Breakpoints in Company Scaling, The Story of Nearly Getting Acquired by Steve Jobs and Apple, How Founders Should Think Through Potential Investors and Acquisitions

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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Is There a Diplomatic Hand Grenade?

There's sort of this mismatch between what you want to do and what you want others to do for you. When you withhold feedback from people, you realize that you're actually not helping them because they keep making the same mistakes again. Also, I think there's sort of a superhero complex that can be lurking under the surface here. You don't have to control or diffuse every aspect of everything.

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