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David Senra
@davidsenra
Conversations with the greatest living founders.
Joined February 2011
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Luca Ferrari’s Dream Team style of management: Great teams should have as few rules as possible. "If you have a mediocre talent then the appeal of process and procedures becomes greater because you need to guide them more. You can't count on people to problem solve autonomously.” “You can't count on them coming to work with fire in their belly.” “If you are lucky enough to have a very strong team, then you want to have as few rules as possible. You want give people massive leeway to express and develop their talent.”’ “This makes them feel trusted and they will bring the best of themselves to work.” “It's similar with sports. If you were coaching the Team USA Dream Team with Jordan and Barkley, you would do it a certain way that would be different than the way you would optimally coach a team of modest talents.” “It's a lot easier to win with Jordan.” “You're not gonna tell your more modest talents, 'Okay, go and figure it out.' You will try to give them a system that's a lot more guiding. So we try to approximate as much as possible to be like the Dream Team."
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My conversation with Luca Ferrari, co-founder of Bending Spoons. 0:00 Fanatical founders building enduring companies 1:23 Luca on building the best company there ever was 4:22 The origins of Bending Spoons 5:47 Talent and why experience is overrated 15:05 Turning hiring into a science 23:30 Why Bending Spoons doesn't use bonuses 29:26 Why everyone in the company has the same job 42:41 On finding great potential and saturating their capacity 49:50 Insisting on a culture of extreme ownership 59:28 Luca's principle of relentless simplification 1:05:15 Why Bending Spoons doesn't use job titles 1:10:27 The proprietary operating system behind Bending Spoons 1:17:07 Why Bending Spoons isn't private equity 1:19:32 How Bending Spoons acquired & transformed Evernote 1:28:01 How Bending Spoons uses AI 1:40:42 How Bending Spoons thinks about capital allocation 1:43:50 Why procrastination without laziness is good 1:46:46 Operational excellence is not optional 1:49:07 How Bending Spoons negotiates acquisitions 1:54:47 Logic over numbers Includes paid partnerships.
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