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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Ben Horowitz

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
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
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

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