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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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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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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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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.
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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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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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