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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

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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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

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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