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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

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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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Length Management Years
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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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Believe Musical Genius People
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful

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