Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
BEN HOROWITZBillionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
BEN HOROWITZWhen raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
BEN HOROWITZNothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
BEN HOROWITZYeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
BEN HOROWITZWartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
BEN HOROWITZI believe in strength over lack of weakness.
BEN HOROWITZYou’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
BEN HOROWITZNote to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
BEN HOROWITZEarly 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.
BEN HOROWITZFor 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 can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
BEN HOROWITZThe key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
BEN HOROWITZThe one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
BEN HOROWITZIt 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.
BEN HOROWITZThese decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
BEN HOROWITZThe only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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