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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.

Ben Horowitz

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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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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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