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Ben Horowitz

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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running

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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