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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.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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Length Management Years
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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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