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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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