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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.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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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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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