Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
BEN HOROWITZPlanning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
BEN HOROWITZNothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
BEN HOROWITZHow do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
BEN HOROWITZAs a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
BEN HOROWITZThere are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZWartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
BEN HOROWITZI 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.
BEN HOROWITZSometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
BEN HOROWITZThe person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
BEN HOROWITZIt’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
BEN HOROWITZOver the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
BEN HOROWITZThere is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
BEN HOROWITZThe only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
BEN HOROWITZWhen raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
BEN HOROWITZWhen 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.
BEN HOROWITZHire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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