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- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot are in between. It's the same for all of us.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
- Sorry
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong.' Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife?
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Bonobos, we believe in the future of men.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?
- Grandmother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
- Honesty Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honesty is love.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be Batman.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
- Goodbye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lincoln was an American messiah, seemingly sent by God to save our country, our union, and our soul. He prioritized unity above all. Perhaps we should do the same.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn't have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn't need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
- General Rule
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digitally-native vertical brand drives a lot more customer intimacy than its competition. The data is better because every transaction and interaction is captured.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hamilton' is not just the best musical I've ever seen. It may be the best thing I've ever seen.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.
- Nov 07, 2020
Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
- Daft
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.
- Duress
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- Nov 07, 2020
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020