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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution it just needs clarity.
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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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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand your task is the same.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
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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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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 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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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