Your employees know each other better than they know you.
BEN HOROWITZThe only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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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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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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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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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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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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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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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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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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