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Common knowledge is the name for the epistemic state we’re collectively in, when we know we can all start choosing action B - and trust everyone else to do the same.

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge - LessWrong

Ben Pace

Before we get into how to build yourself as a CEO, a foundational question you should ask yourself is whether you really want to *be* CEO. Many people think that founders make the best CEOs because they have the vision and the drive necessary to inspire employees and investors and keep them marching in the same direction. But you, you the founder, should reflect on whether you want to keep doing the job of CEO as your company grows. You’ll be required to stretch yourself, to learn rapidly, and to recover from the many mistakes you’ll inevitably make. All the while you’ll be moving further away from your area of expertise (say, product, design, or engineering) and closer to the amorphous, frustrating role of leading people. It’s not for everybody.

From Start-Up to Grown-Up - Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business

Alisa Cohn

Great founders thought five years or more about the problem beforehand Summary: The great successful companies, great founders, almost always have thought deeply about the domain they're operating in for five years or longer. And basically, you ask increasingly detailed questions. If the answers get more and more specific, as the questions get more andmore specific, that's really good. "By the way, OK, by the way, you're also trying to pull one on yourself," he adds. Transcript: Speaker 1 You have to really understand all of the twists and turns that require getting from point A, which is like a vague idea of what you want to do, kind of all the way to point Z on the other side Of the maze, which is an actual product that matters that you can build a startup around. And you have to actually think your way through all those steps. And the founders who are good at what they do, think through, they take the time they put in the effort, often years. What I find is it's almost always five years plus. This is not like a short term thing. It's almost always somebody. The great successful companies, great founders, almost always have thought deeply about the domain they're operating in for five years, up and 10 years, up and longer. And basically, you ask increasingly detailed questions. If the answers get more and more specific, as the questions get more and more specific, that's really good. If the answers get more and more in general and more and more fuzz, then it's like, OK. And by the way, OK, you're trying to pull one on us. OK, by the way, you're also trying to pull one on yourself. Yeah, right.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

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