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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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 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
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

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