Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Found
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks
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 Made Now
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Running
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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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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 Years
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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
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
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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Mistakes
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Knows Someone Something
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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Building Things
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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Jobs
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.
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Inspiration Jobs

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