It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“When founders come in to pitch our firm—one as the CEO and the other as president—the conversation often goes like this: “Who… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The Struggle is when you are having a conversation with someone and you can’t hear a word that they are saying because… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The purpose of process is communication. If there are five people in your company, you don’t need process, because you can just… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics,… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“As painful as it might be, I knew that we had to get into the broader market in order to understand it well enough… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“On my grandfather’s tombstone, you will find his favorite Marx quote: “Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money." Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?" Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
