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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

Ben Horowitz

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Startup

Leadership is hard to train on.

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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Train
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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Inspiration Jobs
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Things
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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Magnified Plentiful
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Running
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets No Silver
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Built
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Figuring Jobs Turns
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Goal Made
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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Courageous
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

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