Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
BEN HOROWITZAs a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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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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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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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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