The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
BEN HOROWITZFor 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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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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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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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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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