Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
BEN HOROWITZIn a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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