Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitzis an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. In the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 June 1966
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Startup 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.
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
There are no silver bullets...
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.
You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
Leadership is hard to train on.
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 a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.