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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Ben Horowitz

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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful

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