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.
BEN HOROWITZYou don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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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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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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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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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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