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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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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 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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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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For 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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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution it just needs clarity.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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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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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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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.
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