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Ben Horowitz: "Was Steve Jobs so mean to people because that just goes with being so brilliant? Or because he could get away with it, because he was so brilliant?" "I think it's a little bit more the latter. He didn't have to do that." "The problem with founders modeling themselves after Jobs... Well, if you're not Jobs or Elon, maybe you can't get away with that." "It's very hard to have the highest performing talent without them coming with some of those behaviors." @bhorowitz with @bhalligan

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