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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
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

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