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

Ben Horowitz

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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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