Episode description

Our guest on this episode of Traction is a legend in Silicon Valley, Keith Rabois, CEO of OpenStore, and GP at top-tier venture capital firm Founders Fund.

Keith was instrumental in the success of PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, Square, and OpenDoor. Eight companies he helped build are publicly traded IPOs with multi-billion dollar market caps or have been acquired for greater than $1 Billion.

Today, Keith shares some unconventional tactics for building hyper-growth companies.

Specifically, Keith covers:

- How he got into tech and PayPal.

- Advice to founders dealing with chaos in the market.

- How startups should be built.

- Finding and attracting undiscovered talent.

- Key hires to make from 0 to $10 million and beyond.

- Key ingredients to build a company that eventually goes public.

- Common mistakes that founders should avoid.

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