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There are no silver bullets.
Don't punk out and don't quit.
Leadership is hard to train on.
I'm a huge believer in clarity.
Rap helps me connect emotionally.
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.