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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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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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It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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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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