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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Ben Horowitz

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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 a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
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
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
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
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role

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