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Ben Horowitz

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
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want

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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