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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

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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows 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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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

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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