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

Ben Horowitz

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup

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