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Ben Horowitz

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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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

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