You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
BEN HOROWITZI believe in strength over lack of weakness.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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