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I've interviewed thousands of people I
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think over my career for all the
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companies that I've involved in whether
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it's been building Facebook or investing
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in companies like slack or Gro there's
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one question that I always go to that I
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think is the most predictive of your
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ability to contribute in a company I say
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take a few minutes to think about
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something that you are an absolute
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expert in and it does not matter what it
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is it could be how to play the French
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horn because you're a musician it could
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be how to play poker or how to play
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chess and then explain it to me what I'm
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trying to figure out in those few
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minutes is do you have a very clear mind
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can you simplify the complex and
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abstract and then can you communicate
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that to me and that's a huge filter in
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the people that are like coached and
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trained in robotic versus the people
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that can really think on their feet what
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you're testing is their Mastery and
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their ability to communicate and their
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ability to simplify complex things that
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you can use to get somebody else on the
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same page with you and that's a very
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powerful skill inside of a company
