What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
BEN HOROWITZYou’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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