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

Ben Horowitz

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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
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

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