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Times of economic crises can ...

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

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[Hillary Clinton] is part of ...

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

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My greatest influences are ac...

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?

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Everyone, you know, during cr...

Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

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One of the great strengths of...

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

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We don't celebrate failure in...

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

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I think the right way to do t...

I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

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...Silicon Valley's success c...

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

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When I'm raising money, this ...

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

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The challenge when you think ...

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

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A little-known company with a...

A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

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There's an ability to learn &...

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

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One of the ways they run forw...

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

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You gotta be both flexible an...

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

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Finished ought to be an F-wor...

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

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Data only exists within the f...

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

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Part of the entrepreneurial t...

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

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The question is: how you cros...

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

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Because in our boom times, ev...

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

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In crisis times, it's actuall...

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

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