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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Ben Horowitz

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never 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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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