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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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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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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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If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution it just needs clarity.
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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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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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