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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Ben Horowitz

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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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
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
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
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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