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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.

Ben Horowitz

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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

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