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The 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 Horowitz

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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality

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