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Trust: In any human interaction, the required amount of communication is inversely proportional to the level of trust.Even if they accentuate the positive and ignore the negative, their team knows that the reality is more nuanced than they describe.

Evaluating yourself and giving yourself an ‘F’ does not help.ĬEOs should tell it like it is. Nobody takes the losses harder than the person most responsible.

You won’t be able to share every burden, but share every burden that you can.

But it causes failure, especially if you are weak.

One of the strong skills of a CEO is the ability to focus and make the best move when there are no good moves.

I was sick, I couldn’t sleep, had cold sweats, threw up and cried.“.

On selling a company the author built: “When it finally ended, I couldn’t believe I had sold what took 8 years and all of my life force to build.

They are efficient at converging on a conclusion, often the wrong one.

Markets aren’t efficient at finding the truth.

It’s rare to find a friend who has both of these qualities.

The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong. The 1st kind is someone you can call when something good happens and you need someone who will be excited for you. He talks about firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. He analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup-practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover.