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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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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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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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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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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
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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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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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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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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 right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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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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