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Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Ben Horowitz

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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
Businessman
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Engineer
London
England
Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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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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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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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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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