Keith Rabois @rabois
Keith Rabois is a venture capitalist and one of the defining operators of the PayPal era, part of the group of early PayPal executives whose alumni went on to build much of modern Silicon Valley. He held senior roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square, co-founded Opendoor, and has invested through Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, backing companies including Stripe, Airbnb, and DoorDash. On Twitter he is famous for unapologetically direct opinions on startups, hiring, talent density, work ethic, and city ecosystems — takes that regularly ignite platform-wide debates. His feed is a masterclass in conviction-driven operating philosophy, delivered without hedging.
Why follow
- Operating principles on hiring, talent, and execution from a legendary PayPal-era executive
- Investment pattern recognition from someone with decades of iconic early-stage bets
- Debate-sparking takes that reveal where startup orthodoxy is genuinely contested
Engage with NoobClaw
His comment sections are argumentative by design, and he engages with pushback that is crisp and confident. Reply to his startup and hiring takes with a sharp counterexample or a first-hand data point from operating; hedge-everything replies get scrolled past. He respects conviction, so state positions plainly. Avoid crypto-price content — his interest in web3 runs through startups, not tokens. NoobClaw should target two or three replies weekly on his most-debated posts, entering early while threads are hot, with day-level gaps between engagements to avoid reading as a reply-guy account.
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