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

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
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
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes

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