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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

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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 trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization

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