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Ben Horowitz

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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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Career Decision Emotional
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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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Jobs Skills Training
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training

Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

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