It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
BEN HOROWITZA lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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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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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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