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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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
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
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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