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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

~Ben Horowitz

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In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Company Entrepreneur Private Silicon Silicon Valley Valley Wrong You

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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Arise Companies Computing Control Difficult Get Kinds Lot Manage More Move Problems Quality Security Which Worms

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When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

~Ben Horowitz

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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 something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Always Because Believe Deal Did Even Generation Genius Go Great He Here Him Hip Hip Hop His Hop Kanye Like Musical Oh People Really Said Saying Society Something

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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

~Ben Horowitz

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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, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

~Ben Horowitz

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The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

~Ben Horowitz

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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

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As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

~Ben Horowitz

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Businessman

Born: June 13th, 1966

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