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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Ben Horowitz

Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management

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