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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

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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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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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