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Year 3 Startup Learnings — Celine Halioua
When you’re early on in company building you have a lot of uncertainty which you chip away at by learning and iterating.
Adam Fishman • 🔥 Hot Take Alert #4: Annual Planning Is a Colossal Waste of Time
Ideally, the CEO will be urgent yet not insane. She will move aggressively and decisively without feeling emotionally culpable. If she can separate the importance of the issues from how she feels about them, she will avoid demonizing her employees or herself.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
"By far the most difficult skill I learned as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology... The first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown."
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Start-ups of any kind are awash in ambiguity. It’s the founder’s responsibility to hold that ambiguity for everyone, which is often a lonely job.