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.
BEN HOROWITZAs a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
BEN HOROWITZI don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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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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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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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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There are no silver bullets.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
BEN HOROWITZThe bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
BEN HOROWITZIn my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
BEN HOROWITZAs a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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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.
BEN HOROWITZVolatility 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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
BEN HOROWITZIf you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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