In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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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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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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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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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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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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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There are no silver bullets.
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