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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

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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 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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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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