It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
“It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.” Ben Horowitz
“It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.” Ben Horowitz
“The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.” Ben Horowitz
“Your employees know each other better than they know you.” Ben Horowitz
“Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.” Ben Horowitz
“In 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 Horowitz
“The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, … Read More
“Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the … Read More
“Here’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 … Read More
“Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.” Ben Horowitz
“I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, … Read More
“For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up … Read More
“Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.” Ben Horowitz
“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 … Read More
“In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.” Ben Horowitz
“Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings” Ben Horowitz
“Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually” Ben Horowitz
“Leadership is hard to train on.” Ben Horowitz
“It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.” Ben Horowitz
“Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.” Ben Horowitz
“There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.” Ben Horowitz