The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
Ben HorowitzIt turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all aboutโfiguring out the right product is the innovatorโs job, not the customerโs job.
Ben HorowitzIn my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
Ben HorowitzThe one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
Ben HorowitzIn 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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