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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

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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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 my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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