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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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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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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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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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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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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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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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I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
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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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