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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

The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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Decision Lonely Running
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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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Jobs Skills Training
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
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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People Said Thinking
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
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

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