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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

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