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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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

Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.

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