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.
Ben HorowitzIt's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
Ben HorowitzMark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncรฉ, I was Kelly Rowlings
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