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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Ben Horowitz

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair 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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
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
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.
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Kind Moving Quality
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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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