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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization

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