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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.

Ben Horowitz

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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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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People Said Thinking
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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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People Problem Smart
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want

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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