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Ben Horowitz
English
Businessman
Born:
Jun 13
,
1966
Business
Company
Good
People
Will
You
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I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
Ben Horowitz
Great
People
Important
Important Things
Think
Easier
Entrepreneurship
Great Thing
Still
Lot
Begin
Trying
Getting
Just
Much
Really
Company
Harder
Thing
Things
Started
In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
Ben Horowitz
Myself
Me
Business
Experience
Management
Own
Books
Out
Would
Find
About
My Own
Laying
Could
Were
Questions
Asking
Asking Questions
Help
Awake
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Ben Horowitz
Every
High-Quality
Employee
Make
Depends
Decisions
Company
Fast
When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
Ben Horowitz
You
Architecture
Vision
Every
Kind
Employee
Know
Make
Limitations
Decisions
Aspect
Product
Original
Company
Found
The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
Ben Horowitz
Education
Time
People
Internet
Incredible
Implications
So Many People
Connected
Standpoint
Many
Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.
Ben Horowitz
Today
You
Guidance
Pressure
Tremendous
Earnings
Fraught
Volatile
Price
Put
Miss
Peril
Becomes
Sellers
Stock
Very
Going
Short
Public
Many
Many Levels
Downward
Levels
I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
Ben Horowitz
People
Management
Try
Stuff
Lot
Help
Help People
I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
Ben Horowitz
Work
Good
People
Think
Say
People Say
About
Said
Lot
Very
Contrived
Just
Mankind
Your
Enjoying
In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
Ben Horowitz
Work
Great
You
Technology
People
Smart
Problems
Big
Build
Incredibly
Total
Smart People
Hire
Brains
Lots
Order
Biggest
Them
Your
Company
Waste
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
Ben Horowitz
Communication
Challenge
Becomes
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Company
Grows
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
Ben Horowitz
People
Say
One Of The Things
Succeeded
Things
Imagine
I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.
Ben Horowitz
Funny
Time
You
People
Problem
Money
Whatever
Rich
Say
Draws
Had
Wrong
Know
Terrible
Am
Doing
Sounds
Go
Hiring
Question
Anybody
Want
Them
Rich People
Ask
Asking
Why
Ever
Things
Need
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.
Ben Horowitz
Book
Management
Advice
Single
Same Thing
Every
Everybody
Say
Says
Would
Exact
Eat
About
Give
More
Write
Never
Like
Another
Exercise
Conclusion
Calories
Same
Diet
Wanted
Them
Less
Many
Thing
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
Ben Horowitz
Good
Great
Knowledge
Problems
Will
Engineering
Difficult
Interview
Tools
Addition
Solve
Some
Write
She
Test
Candidate
Short
Might
Depth
Require
Uses
Even
Include
Program
Set
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.
Ben Horowitz
Great
Smart
Value
Other
Those
More
Than
Screening
Engineers
Companies
Mediocre
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
Ben Horowitz
You
Losing
Seriously
Superior
Incredibly
Addition
Hungry
Must
Develop
Environment
Massively
Sales
Selling
Survive
Succeed
To Survive
Product
Techniques
Competitive
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
Ben Horowitz
Business
Up
Very
Situational
Being
Ends
Dynamic
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.
Ben Horowitz
Me
Communication
People
Better
Job
Know
Lot
Very
Helpful
Rap helps me connect emotionally.
Ben Horowitz
Me
Rap
Emotionally
Connect
Helps
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
Ben Horowitz
Time
You
Culture
Will
Job
Long
Long Time
Important
Proper
Area
Knowing
Very
Very Long Time
Get
Getting
Want
CEO
Certain
Your
Help
Company
Designing
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