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What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself

Sachin Rekhi

Keith Rabois encouraged me to read The Score Takes Care of Itself by the late Bill Walsh to learn about another such way. It turned out to be a fantastic read in which Bill Walsh shares unique insights into his leadership approach from his time as head coach and general manager of the San Francisco 49ers.

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A Leader's Guide to Implementing OKRs

Sachin Rekhi

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. When done right, they help drive focus, alignment, accountability, and an outcome-orientation throughout the organization.

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Is your product on the right track? A lesson from football on finding leading indicators in your data

Mixpanel

Back in 1985, now-legendary San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh was brought in to turn around the worst team in the National Football League (NFL). Walsh needed additional facts to prove to the 49ers’ owner, and himself, that the team was actually on the cusp of success. Most of their losses had been by only a few points.

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How I Write

Sachin Rekhi

Writing itself brings clarity, so focusing on these topics has been a self-reinforcing loop, helping me generate even more perspectives on these subjects. In doing so, I decided to take on a brand new writing project, entitled LettersToZoe.com , where I share all the life lessons I hope to pass on to Zoe on living a happy and meaningful life.

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A Look Back at a Decade of SachinRekhi.com

Sachin Rekhi

This year, as we roll past the end of the decade, I've found myself taking it in as a whole. Today I thought it'd be fun to take a trip down memory lane and recap my 15 most viewed posts over the past decade. Today I thought it'd be fun to take a trip down memory lane and recap my 15 most viewed posts over the past decade.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

Five years ago Brian Rothenberg joined Eventbrite to start its cross-functional growth team. Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat.