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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
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

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