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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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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Important People Phones
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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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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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