Keith Rabois

"The job of leadership is to create a world that people want to belong to."

"Editing is the most important skill for any leader. Edit the team, edit the strategy, edit the product."

"Barrels are people who can take an idea from conception to launch. Find and develop barrels."

"Hire people who are better than you at their job. If they're not, why are you hiring them?"

"The best companies feel inevitable in retrospect but crazy in the moment."

"The best founders I know are like heat-seeking missiles for the truth."

"Simplify. Most companies make things too complicated. The best companies relentlessly simplify."

"Distribution is more important than product. A great product with no distribution loses to a good product with great distribution."

"Most meetings are a waste of time. If you have to have them, make them short and have clear next steps."

"At Square, we obsessed over every pixel, every interaction. Details matter at scale."