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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.

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
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
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
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want

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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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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