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When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.
Glenn Kelman
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Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.
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It's important for a CEO to feel lucky.
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When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.
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Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.
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After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be.
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From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.
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Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.
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What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its drivers is their iPhone.
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Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.
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With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.
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Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public education, and immigration policy are to Silicon Valley's long-term success.
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