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.
BEN HOROWITZIt’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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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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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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