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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Ben Horowitz

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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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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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Levels Nonsense Running
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns

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