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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

Ben Horowitz

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
BEN HOROWITZ

Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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 is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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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Decision Lonely Running
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

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