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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

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting

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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