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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.

Ben Horowitz

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
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
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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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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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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