The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
BEN HOROWITZAs a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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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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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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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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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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