Siva Kumar Tangudu

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[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Q: How do you build effective teams?

Keith Rabois, Founders Fund Partner and former COO of Square, has a great framework for building effective teams that he calls: “Barrels and Ammunition.”

When most companies begin scaling, they just hire a lot of people. Naively, they expect that—as they add people—their velocity of shipping will increase. But startups don’t work that way, and in fact you sometimes get less done when you add more people.

Keith argues that the reason for this is that most people in your company—even great people—are what he calls “ammunition.” But what you need in your company are “barrels”. He defines barrels as extremely talented people who can take ideas from inception all the way through to fully shipped product.

To increase company velocity, you need to add “barrels” and then stock them with “ammunition.” Most companies start with one barrel (the founder) and then double their throughput when they add another one.

In the clip below, he explains this framework and some specific tactics for identifying and managing barrels:

[ISRO @isro]

LVM3 M4/Chandrayaan-3:
Lift-off, tracking and onboard views

[Amul.coop @Amul_Coop]

#Amul Topical: Tribute to the advertising legend, creator of the Amul girl…

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

Sunday read.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit.

I think the winners are:

1/ Enter your phone number

[slice @slicebank]

1000 RTs and we’ll enable a spark that helps you save ₹100 extra on your next @Swiggy or @SwiggyInstamart order 😎

[Siva Kumar Tangudu @tsiva]

@1992gaurav @sliceit_ @1992gaurav: we haven't introduced any new permissions or made any material changes beyond what we already do. we're following up with play store. the app has already been updated with the previous build yday. pls do an update once & let us know if you are still facing the issue

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

The original iPhone didn’t have cut/copy/paste. Infamous! The quickest explanation is that I didn’t have time to do it right. I had too much keyboard, autocorrection, and text system work to do. The design team didn’t have time either. So we passed on the feature for 1.0.

[Garv Malik @malikgarv]

I paid for strangers shopping at Puma. Worked really hard on this one. Would love feedback. RT for karma.

https://t.co/FqEs9bDeNu

[slice @slicebank]

They said, but everyone uses UPI already.
We said, yeah but slicers use super UPI 😎

Comment #slicesuperUPI if you're excited for it 😍
DW, reaching to you all super soon 🤩

[slice @slicebank]

What's up with us? Nothing much, just building the BEST financial world for y'all 😉

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[Finovate @Finovate]

Alex Johnson (@AlexH_Johnson) of Fintech Takes #Finovate

[Graham Hutton @haskellhutt]

Depresssingly, this quote from 1984 is even more true today than it was then.

[Anuj Rathi @anujrathi]

It’s not prioritisation if it doesn’t hurt

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

Own it, fall down, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, accumulate scar tissues. That's how we add value. That's how we learn.
~ Steve Jobs

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Most Execution problems are really
1) Strategy problems, or
2) Interpersonal problems, or
3) Culture problems

Good leaders execute well because they understand this. They fix the root problem.

Bad leaders struggle because they are always applying band-aids.

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

You can often trace back a co's massive competitive advantage to a key decision in its history. For amazon, it was this 2002 memo. The API economy was still 10yrs out, so this took real courage. The only joke here was the last line. Bezos didn't really care if you had a nice day.

[Rajan Bajaj @rajan_bajaj]

Have been asked credit score-related questions on Twitter by some well-meaning folks recently. Sharing a few facts about it 📖 🧵

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

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[Siva Kumar Tangudu @tsiva]

@gonsalves_r +1 :)!