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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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 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
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running

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