Leadership is hard to train on.
BEN HOROWITZLeadership is hard to train on.
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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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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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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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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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