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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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 believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart

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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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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