The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
BEN HOROWITZSometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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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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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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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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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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