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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

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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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Believe Musical Genius People
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress

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