I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
BEN HOROWITZWhen 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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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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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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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