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Joe Lonsdale Quotes

American - Businessman | September 12, 1982 -

Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.

Mistakes Better Admit Ask Cultures

America has the greatest military in the world, and it's up to our leaders to set the bar for what a 21st century military culture of innovation with transparent, collaborative leadership looks like.

Leadership Innovation Culture World

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

Financial Data Decision-Making Guide

Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.

Liberty Duty Will Profound Serve

One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.

Leader Great Talent Important Most

A talented executive whose interests are aligned with the firm's and is confident in her role will always recruit stars who exceed herself in various ways, but one who is worried about her value to the firm will not.

Stars Value Confident Will Always

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

Goals Leader Great Culture Job Team

A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.

Leadership Growth Best Culture Team

In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

Vision Culture Push Early Will Need

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Better Know Up Industry Who Shake

A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.

Work Business Vision Experience Year

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

People Know Run Senior Seen Who

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