LIFE-CHANGING LEADERSHIP ADVICE

FROM SILICON VALLEY BILLIONAIRES

The number of billionaires wholive in Silicon Valley

56

Sergey Brin

David Cheriton

David Filo

Reid Hoffman

Yuri Milner

Laurene Powell Jobs

Larry Page

Richard Peery

Robert Pera

Jeffrey Skoll

Andreas Von Bechtolsheim

Romesh Wadhwani

Jerry Yang

Mark Zuckerberg

John Arrillaga Carl Berg

Jim Breyer

Scott Cook

Helen Diller

Sanford Diller

John Doerr

Larry Ellison

Ken Fisher

Charles Johnson

Rupert Johnson II

Vinod Khosla

Gordon Moore

John Morgridge

George Roberts

Eric Schmidt

Charles Schwab

Kavitark Ram Shiram

Thomas Siebel

John A. Sobrato

Mark Stevens

Meg WhitmanRiley Bechtel

Stephen Bechtel

Marc Benioff

James Coulter

Ray Dolby Jack Dorsey

Doris Fisher

John Fisher

Robert Fisher

William Fisher

Gordon Getty

William Randolph Hearts III

Michael Moritz

Dustin Moskovitz

John PritzkerRiley Bechtel

Thomas Steyer

Peter Thiel

The chance of becomming a billionaire

1 in 785,166

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“There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most

important quality a leader can have.”Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook

We are biased towards people who never give up, who never quit; and that’s something you can’t find on a resume. We look for courage, and we look for genius. There’s all this talk about how important failure is. I

call it the failure fetish. ‘Failure is wonderful, it teaches you so much, it is great to fail a lot,’ they say. But we think failure sucks. Success is

wonderful.

Marc Andreessen – Andreessen Horowitz

Do something that you love. We spend a lot of time at work. I’ve probably spent 150 hours over the last couple of weeks. And so you have to find

something that you love and I think you need to do it with people who you really enjoy. I get tremendous satisfaction from the team – the joy of

collaboration from figuring things out together. And so I think teams and the people that you work with are incredibly important.

Meg Whitman – Hewlett Packard

Companies full of people looking after themselves will, by default, make their companies better too. In this sense, leaders don’t need to lose hope;

they just need to play the game better.

Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn

Andy Grove wrote a very important book in the ’80s. it’s called ‘Only the paranoid survive!.’ I think you have to be both overconfident and paranoid at the same time almost schizophrenic in your personality. Overconfident about

your ability to solve a problem. Paranoid that everything will get you, so you’re constantly looking for the problems.

Vinod Khosla – Khosla Ventures

There is nothing else that kills ambitions of a person as criticism from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive

to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles Schwab - Charles Schwab

I’ve been put in a position I’ve never dreamed of. I’ve got to conduct myself accordingly. There’s pressure. But we don’t walk around here saying, ‘We’re going to be rich.’ This is my idea of a good time. I visit

with customers. They’re using products with my name on them. I want to be doing this when I’m 65. I want the very same job.

Thomas Siebel – Siebel Systems

When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more

than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say “take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers,

customers, and partners” great things happen.Marc Benioff – Salesforce

It’s always a bad idea to set one’s employees too much against one another. You want to find ways to differentiate people’s roles. Frame it this way: If you were a sociopathic boss who wanted to create trouble for your employees, the formula you would follow would be to tell two people to do the exact same thing. That’s a guaranteed formula for creating conflict. If

you’re not a sociopath, you want to be very careful to avoid this.Peter Thiel - Paypal

My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a

good heart.

Elon Musk - Tesla

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and

are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

Larry Page - Google

All my days are themed. Monday is management. Tuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and

communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and culture. On the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the

morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategy. Saturday is a day off.

Jack Dorsey - Square

In the past, as my companies have grown, I’ve hired these amazing people and I felt like I was getting less and less of them as the company got

bigger. Part of that was because they were in a particular area and they had ideas, concerns or perspectives, that were relevant outside of those

areas, but it wasn’t clear what to do with those. Holacracy provides a very specific way where people are actually encouraged to bring this stuff up.

It’s called processing tension; it’s very efficient and you really take advantage of everybody’s perspective and ideas.

Evan Williams - Twitter

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