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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.

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
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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 person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse

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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