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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.

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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver

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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