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Cause two suckers can’t agree on something

a thousand mutherfuckers die for nothing

—Geto Boys, Fuck a War

Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. One thing you don’t do is share command. It’s never a good idea.

- Major Vic Deakins, Broken Arrow (played by John Travolta)

Zynga recently put a new management structure in place where Don Mattrick is the CEO and my friend Mark Pincus, the founder and former CEO, will be the...

Cause two suckers can't agree on something
a thousand mutherfuckers die for nothing
—Geto Boys, Fuck a War

Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. One thing you don't do is share command. It's never a good idea.
- Major Vic Deakins, Broken Arrow (played by John Travolta)

Zynga recently put a new management structure in place where Don Mattrick is the CEO and my friend Mark Pincus, the founder and former CEO,...

It’s the dream team meets the supreme team

And all our eyes green it only means one thing

You ain’t fucking with my clique

—Jay-Z,Clique

It’s an honor, a privilege and so supremely awesome to announce thatour newest General Partner is Lars Dalgaard.

Lars is spectacularly qualified. He founded and ran SuccessFactorsand led them to $364 million in annual revenue ultimately resulting in a$3.5 billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. This was by far the largest and mostimportant acquisition in the history...

It's the dream team meets the supreme team
And all our eyes green it only means one thing
You ain’t fucking with my clique
—Jay-Z, Clique

It’s an honor, a privilege and so supremely awesome to announce thatour newest General Partner is Lars Dalgaard.

Lars is spectacularly qualified. He founded and ran SuccessFactorsand led them to $364 million in annual revenue ultimately resulting in a$3.5 billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. This was by far the largest and mostimportant acquisition in...

He’s a big bad wolf in your neighborhood

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good

—Run DMC, Peter Piper

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

It starts with the hiring process. If you attempt to hire sa...

He's a big bad wolf in your neighborhood
Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good
—Run DMC, Peter Piper

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

It starts with the hiring process. If you attempt...

I done kept it real from the jump

Living at my mama’s house we’d argue every month

N@#$a, I was trying to get it on my own

Working all night, traffic on the way home

And my uncle calling me like “Where ya at?

I gave you the keys told ya bring it right back”

N@#$a, I just think its funny how it goes

Now I’m on the road, half a million for a show

And we started from the bottom now we here

—Drake, Started From the Bottom

When I was 20 years old, I was a computer science major at Columbia University and I...

I done kept it real from the jump
Living at my mama’s house we'd argue every month
N@#$a, I was trying to get it on my own
Working all night, traffic on the way home
And my uncle calling me like “Where ya at?
I gave you the keys told ya bring it right back”
N@#$a, I just think its funny how it goes
Now I’m on the road, half a million for a show
And we started from the bottom now we here
—Drake, Started From the Bottom

When I was 20 years old, I was a computer science major at Columbia Univer...