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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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 Management Years
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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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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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Differences People Vision
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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