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Ben Horowitz

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

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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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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