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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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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Kind Moving Quality
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
It 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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want

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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