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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training

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