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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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

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