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Presentation secrets, leadership lessons, startup strategy, and product thinking from the legends of tech
Before Oracle conquered enterprise software, Larry Ellison mastered one weapon that terrified competitors and hypnotized customers — the power of saying nothing at all.
In 2009, Airbnb was hemorrhaging money and users hated the product. Then Paul Graham sent 3 words that changed everything: 'Do things that don't scale.' Here's how one founder turned desperation into a masterclass in product thinking.
In 1985, Intel was hemorrhaging money on memory chips. Then Andy Grove locked his co-founder in a room and asked one question that changed everything: 'If we got fired today, what would our replacements do?'
In 2004, Jeff Bezos walked into a meeting, saw slides, and banned PowerPoint forever. What he replaced it with became Amazon's secret weapon for clear thinking.
Every year since 1997, Jeff Bezos has attached the same letter to Amazon's annual report. Inside it is the operating system for one of the most relentless companies ever built.