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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Ben Horowitz

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
Early 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.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
Over 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.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

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