Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois)

What should the CEO be doing on a day to day basis? How do you make sure the company is moving in the right direction?
Keith Rabois, Partner at Khosla Ventures and former COO of Square, tackles the nitty gritty - How to Operate. Lots of actionable takeaways from this lecture!

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This video has the highest density of content of all of these lectures so far.  Like every 1 minute interval this guy is expressing some lesson that you can tell is backed up by years of emotional anchors.  Very, very good.

[hoodasaurabh]

There are 2 surprising things in these lectures:
1. Sam always has some question to ask. Shows his dedication to the course as well as his focus in that very class. Commendable!!
2. All the presenters have watched previous lectures of the course. I've noticed presenter referencing previous lectures in nearly every single lecture. All these guys are BIGshots and they are dedicated enough to watch previous lectures to see what was covered and who told what. Commendable!! 

[skipal]

Despite the "boring" lecture title... this is pure gold. Sad that only 87k have watched this.

[vecter]

This is an incredibly insightful and useful lecture. Most lectures talk about early stage challenges (which, to be fair, are the most common problems that startups have), but once you get beyond 5 people, the content in this lecture will probably more directly affect your company's success than any other lecture.

[ereinholtz]

This is enormously relevant with what I'm struggling with right now. Thanks so much for the advice, Keith.

[gastontrussi]

Amazing insight and the content is your precious. First time in a while that I truly watch a video full screen, earphones and total attention into it. Worth the time. Thanks!

[MarkMichuda]

Yeah, this guy is so much better then the other speakers!

[tarunommadan]

Thanks Keith, Sam, Stanford and Y Combinator for this video.

[StanGanweizhong]

Watch this many times but I still keep it in my watch later list...Great!!!

[EmbraceTheHustle]

Watching this at 0.75x speed was very useful for me. Too many pearls to skip even any 5 seconds.

[graphicsRat]

This is one of the best talks in the series.

[ElfProduct]

Who is here after 20VC podcast where Eric gave this vid a shoutout?

[Saturday_ProFuel]

Still excellent today. Thanks to all, and especially to Keith for the incredible stream of insight.

[billguschwan]

9:52 for shifting leader styles you can use Kolbe conative test to identify their style of doing things so you can adjust as needed.

[kamilmosciszko]

Those lectures are valuable. I love it. A lot of informations

[IanTranSend]

That delegation framework, very much appreciated.

[XclusiveFBA]

This is brilliant and a good use of time

[priyankshah]

Thank you for this. This really helps.

[MaiFast]

Wow great lecture, love it, thanks Stanford for this amazing series

[Psychgo]

Can someone tell me why it's important to have a consistent voice across your content? What if you're like buzzfeed, businessinsiders?