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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 Horowitz

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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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Important People Phones
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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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Focus Management Stress
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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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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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