Minimizing politics often feels totally unnatural. It’s counter to excellent management practices such as being open-minded and encouraging employee … - Ben Horowitz

The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

los CEO de una startup no deben jugar a las probabilidades. Cuando tú estás construyendo una empresa, debes creer que hay una respuesta y no puedes prestar atención a las probabilidades de encontrarla. Sólo tienes que encontrarla.

Since tech became a consumer phenomenon, thousands of nontech people have come up with great ideas that use technology. But if their startups outsource their engineering, they almost always fail. Why? It turns out that it’s easy to build an app or a website that meets the specification of some initial idea, but far more difficult to build something that will scale, evolve, handle edge cases gracefully, etc. A great engineer will only invest the time and effort to do all those things, to build a product that will grow with the company, if she has ownership in the company — literally as well as figuratively. Bob Noyce understood that, created the culture to support it, and changed the world.