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.
Ben HorowitzVolatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.
Ben HorowitzBillionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
Ben HorowitzThe primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.
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