Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
BEN HOROWITZYou’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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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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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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