It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all aboutโfiguring out the right product is the innovatorโs job, not the customerโs job.
Ben HorowitzThe right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
Ben HorowitzWhen you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.
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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