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slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast, Brooklyn edition. We're here at the

World Headquarters of Genius.com with Tom Lehman and Ilan Zakori, co-founders. Two days ago,

the Gang of Genius released the Geniusisms. And it's a list of rules, concepts, feelings to live by.

Rules is a real bit.

It's great.

It's not rules and more about commands slash decrees.

No, it's more about like just commandments.

Commandments, I think.

There's a lot of them.

There's 17 commandments.

Yeah.

It's sort of like an aspirational self-definition, how we work, sort of some slogans and some ideas you can refer to.

When you're working, some things that tend to come up a lot over the years.

And we've been at this working together for five years and just a lot of stuff keeps coming up and as you're hiring and building a new company you have a new person

and it's kind of like a re-education in all the sort of means you're used to dealing with and so we

kind of tried to write it all down stuff kind of doesn't happen so directly but dan gilbert when

i first met him he was the sort of topic that he was fascinated by was just how do you communicate who you are to a growing company when you have 20 people or 30 people or 1,000 people.

How do you communicate like the key ideas and do it in a way that sort of scales and is efficient and makes everybody work well together.

And so he told us that he told me that and I thought this was interesting.

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