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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Ben Horowitz

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No 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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks

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