As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
BEN HOROWITZIf you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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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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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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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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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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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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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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