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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 only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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 manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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 believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness

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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