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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

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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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 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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
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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Answer Culture 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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart

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