The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
BEN HOROWITZThe key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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There are no silver bullets.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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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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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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There are no silver bullets.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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