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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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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Great Company Investment Stage
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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 emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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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Date Example Majority Problem Result
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong

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