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.
BEN HOROWITZIn life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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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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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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