One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
BEN HOROWITZLeadership is hard to train on.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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 right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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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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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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