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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

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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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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