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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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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

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