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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

Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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 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 my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader 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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About Decision Made Now Recognize

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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