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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Ben Horowitz

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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Book Enemy Fighting
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
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
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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Jobs Skills Training
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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