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

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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