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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.

Ben Horowitz

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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Levels Nonsense Running
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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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Great Company Investment Stage
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
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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Decision Lonely Running
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission

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