The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture..

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can….

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 do….

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 jo….

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to dat….

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company..

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups..

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment..

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists..

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences..

There are no silver bullets..

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future..

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings.

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

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin..

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their per….

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup..

Don't punk out and don't quit..

Your employees know each other better than they know you..

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on..

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating.