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Build A-Teams
Don’t Hire Just A-Players
In Silicon Valley, a kind of mythology permeates stories about founders.
Jobs and Wozniak’s fight against IBM to invent the personal computer has become as much legend as history. Elon Musk’s personal crusade to rid the world of fossil fuel dependence through SolarCity and Tesla, populate Mars via SpaceX, and solve metropolitan congestion with Boring approaches the fantastical in scope and vision. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and his friends building Facebook is immortalized in The Social Network, a film that grossed over $200 million.1
These singular founders are the legends on which Silicon Valley is built.
But in their pioneering efforts, they were never truly alone. Each led a small army. Apple now ...
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