It’s the moments where you feel most like hiding or dying that you can make the biggest difference as a CEO. - Ben Horowitz

Perhaps most important, set a high and clear standard for performance. If you want to have a world-class company, you must make sure that the people on your staff — be they young or old — are world-class.

Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes.

Marc and I discussed this paradox often. We wondered aloud why as founders we had to prove to our investors beyond a shadow of a doubt that we could run the company, rather than our investors assuming that we would run the company we’d created. This conversation ultimately became the inspiration for Andreessen Horowitz.