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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

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