If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
BEN HOROWITZBillionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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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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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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There are no silver bullets.
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