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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

Ben Horowitz

Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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’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
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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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