Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
BEN HOROWITZWhen raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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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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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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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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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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