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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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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Jobs Skills Training
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks

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