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

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
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
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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 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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting

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