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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

Ben Horowitz

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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 lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

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