When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
BEN HOROWITZThe bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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