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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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 person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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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Critical Decisions Talking Views
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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