Ben Horowitz: Importance of People Skills

Yeah. So you know, in the world of entrepreneurship, the big skills are kind of programming skills and people skills. Like those are the big two. And I think people skills tend to be highly underestimated in terms of kind of just ability to run a company and so forth. And what I mean by people skills is the ability to understand other people's motivation and other people's motivations, who you're talking to and then who you're also not talking to and how they're going to think about something and where they're coming from and relate to that in a way that gets you to the right conclusion about how you build an organization or build a company or make a deal or any of these kinds of things is incredibly valuable. And that's what I would say most of the kind of good entrepreneurs end up lacking more than the technical skills that we see now. Like being like a boss level engineer, that's extremely valuable. I'm not discounting that. But that's really the other big, big skill that you can learn in.