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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.

Ben Horowitz

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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Differences People Vision
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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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Company Deal Leaves Management
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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Jobs Skills Training
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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Choice Courageous Decision
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management

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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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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