Episode: Keith Rabois: Accumulating Advantages
Pub date: 2019-01-14
My guest today is Keith Rabois, the Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. At Khosla, Keith focuses on the consumer internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health. Keith has had a front-seat to Silicon Valley history. He’s had five bosses in his career: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, Jack Dorsey, and Vinod Khosla. In this episode, we talk about the lessons of sports from the San Francisco 49ers to the Oakland A’s. Keith shares a story from his first week at PayPal, where he went on a run with Peter Thiel, which sparked his hiring philosophy. Then, we talk about the future of education, how to find undiscovered talent in society, the power of accumulating advantages, and how to raise the level of ambition in society. Keith has built more billion dollar companies than just about anybody on Planet Earth, and all that wisdom shines through in our conversation.
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People mentioned:
- Peter Thiel
- Max Levchin
- Reed Hoffman
- Jack Dorsey
- Vinod Khosla
- Bill Walsh
- Blake Masters
- Elon Musk
- Erik Torenberg
- Bill Thompson
- William Safire
- Pat Riley
- Jerry Garcia
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