Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
BEN HOROWITZWhen raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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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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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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