Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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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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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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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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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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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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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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