Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
-
-
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
BEN HOROWITZ -
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.
BEN HOROWITZ -
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
BEN HOROWITZ -
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
BEN HOROWITZ -
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
BEN HOROWITZ -
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
BEN HOROWITZ -
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
BEN HOROWITZ -
When 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 HOROWITZ -
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Over 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 HOROWITZ -
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
BEN HOROWITZ -
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
BEN HOROWITZ -
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
BEN HOROWITZ -
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
BEN HOROWITZ -
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
BEN HOROWITZ -
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
BEN HOROWITZ -
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
BEN HOROWITZ -
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
BEN HOROWITZ -
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
BEN HOROWITZ -
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.
BEN HOROWITZ -
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 -
There are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZ -
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
BEN HOROWITZ