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Which Way Do You Run?
"As CEO, there will be many times when you feel like quitting. I have seen CEOs try to cope with the stress by drinking heavily, checking out, and even quitting. In each case, the CEO has a marvelous rationalization about why it was okay for him to punk out or quit, but none of them will ever be great CEOs. Great CEOs face the pain. They deal with ... See more
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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As a founder, there will come a point where your backs against the wall, runway is short, and you’ve got to fight for your companies survival.
Every founder has been there. Always look to have another move in your back pocket for when you need it. Ben Horowitz has walked the walk on this — here he is answering why he made the unpopular decision to ... See more
Every founder has been there. Always look to have another move in your back pocket for when you need it. Ben Horowitz has walked the walk on this — here he is answering why he made the unpopular decision to ... See more
Michael Houck • Resilient Founders Always Have A Move
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Those were the first words I spoke as I made the transition from a peacetime CEO to a wartime CEO. By virtue of my position and the fact that we were a public company, nobody besides me had the complete picture. I knew we were in deep, deep trouble. Nobody besides me could get us out of the trouble, and I was through listening to advice about what
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
When he was CEO of Opsware, their toughest competitor Bladelogic started consistently beating them in large deals. His smartest people offered suggestions on how to avoid the battle. they regained their product lead after nine months of hard work on a rugged product cycle, building a company worth $1.6B in the end. "There are no silver bullets here... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong versus doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified a thousandfold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful. Life Excuse CEO Excuse Other smart pe
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz • 12 highlights
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- DOES THE CEO KNOW WHAT TO DO?
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
As the former CEO of both Data Domain and ServiceNow, two successful tech companies in recent years, I am often confronted with questions: what did you guys do? What is the secret sauce? How did you do it? We never thought of ourselves as that different. We certainly didn’t think we had stumbled on a silver bullet. Did we just get incredibly lucky ... See more
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