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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

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