Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
BEN HOROWITZWhat do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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There are no silver bullets.
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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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