When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
Ben HorowitzHere's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
Ben HorowitzIn life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben HorowitzStartup 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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