Kaz Nejatian

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618 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Knowledge Project · Inside Kaz Nejatian’s Fight to Save Opendoor · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So I stopped at the office.

I thought Opendoor was a place where people were unwilling to take risks.

So we took risks publicly.

You need to figure out which defaults are killing the company and change them violently.

There must not be change management because you want the change to feel jarring.

Second, you must tell people what you expect of them.

Most companies' mission statements end up being bland, pale imitations of statements.

We're here for the good of the world.

Ye PIA, who isn't?

Right?

But you have to say things that a reasonable person would say, I don't want any of that.

You have to figure out what those things are because it matters.

And third, if you're starting as a CEO of a new company, I strongly urge you this.

Be committed to truth over feelings.

Truth over feelings all the goddamn time.

Because you will invariably over time find that you will get rounder edges if you're not careful.

I think what happens is people are truthful within the context of the situation and the people they're in the room with.

The larger the room is, the less space there is for truth, right?

But that is the death sentence.

of companies.

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