Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois)
Video from Y Combinator. Watch on YouTube or in the YC Library.
What you'll get
Keith Rabois describes a CEO's job as editing rather than writing: shaping other people's work, delegating in proportion to your trust and to how costly a mistake would be, and putting the best people on the hardest problems. His examples come from PayPal, Square and LinkedIn.
Do this week
List the decisions you made last week, mark the ones someone else could have made, and hand one of them over this week.