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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.’

Ben Horowitz

Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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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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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