The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
BEN HOROWITZThe key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
BEN HOROWITZNothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
BEN HOROWITZEarly 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.
BEN HOROWITZIn my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
BEN HOROWITZYou’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
BEN HOROWITZBreakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
BEN HOROWITZYou can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
BEN HOROWITZGroupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
BEN HOROWITZThe only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
BEN HOROWITZOne of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
BEN HOROWITZI think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
BEN HOROWITZHere’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.
BEN HOROWITZI don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
BEN HOROWITZOver the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
BEN HOROWITZThese 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.
BEN HOROWITZIt 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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