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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

When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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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