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

Ben Horowitz

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 one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup

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