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Boss Talk #15: Copycats, Inventors vs. Operators. Hiring SDRs, and more

May 28, 2021

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Do You Want a So or an Inventor?

05:17

Don't Give Them the Context

02:34

Do You Copy Club House?

01:54

Introduction

4min

Awsome Tat O Bolian, Anyway?

2min

Are You a Good Idea?

2min

Isn't It Time Artificial Intelligence Do More Meaningful Problem Solving?

2min

Use Cases in the Health Industry

2min

How Many People Would Die in a Year if We Stayed at This Rate?

2min

Is There a Lottery?

2min

Do You Expect Everyone to Copy You?

3min

Do You Copy Club House?

2min

10.

Do You Copy Ben Silverman?

2min

11.

The Art of Remixing, Not Copying

2min

12.

Do You Want a So or an Inventor?

5min

13.

Is the Picking an Operator Better Than the Innovator?

2min

14.

Sales Development in Talent Short Markets?

2min

15.

Is It Possible to Find Estars in Any Country, Any Place?

4min

16.

How Do You Manage a Fast Growth Tech Company?

4min

17.

I'm Sorry, I've Jumped In.

2min

18.

Let the Leader Be Transparent, or Say Nothing, or Be Vague

5min

19.

Isn't Being Super Transparent About Why You're Getting Fired?

2min

20.

You Know, It's Your Fault When Someone Gets Fired?

5min

21.

Is That a Good Idea?

2min

22.

Don't Give Them the Context

3min

23.

What's the Worst Advice?

2min

24.

I'm Gonna Pull Up the James Brown Song the Boss, Which Is Like, Which Has Been Going on in My Head. Thanks.

34sec

Fab 5 Freddy on New York in the 70s, Warhol, Blondie, Basquiat, and Yo! MTV Raps [1:40]
Contrarian strategy and challenging assumptions [5:12]
Boring AI and solving meaningful problems [8:42]
Drop-in audio copycats [14:39]
How is copying software different from remixing hip hop? [21:07]
Do you want a CEO as an inventor or an operator? [24:12]
Recruiting sales development reps [30:34]
Being a boss and having a personal life [36:56]
How do you tell the story of letting someone go? [42:47]
Best practices for delegating responsibility [49:46]
Worst boss advice Ben and Ali have received [57:15]

Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesday 5-6pm on Clubhouse.

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