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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.’

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences 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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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

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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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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