The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Author: Ben Horowitz

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/04/2014

Synopsis

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

About Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly ten million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. Horowitz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Felicia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arjun on March 21, 2014

Executive Summary: This is a book about Ben Horowitz's war stories. Ben Horowitz has good war stories, if you care about the narrow space of Venture Backed fast growth technology startups. I'm not so sure that they generalize to the point of making a good management guide. You might be better off re......more

Goodreads review by Brad on March 10, 2014

This is one of the best books you’ll ever read on entrepreneurship and being a CEO. If you are a CEO, read this book. If you aspire to be a CEO read this book. If you are on a management team and want to understand what a CEO goes through, read this book. If you are interested in entrepreneurship and wa......more

Goodreads review by Otis on February 10, 2017

I haven’t read many (any?) books that are written by CEO’s for CEO’s. If you are a CEO, aspire to be a CEO, or really, manage anyone - you need to read this book. This quote is perhaps my favorite one from the book. At the top, nobody is there to tell you what to do. It’s easy to look at some leader......more

Goodreads review by Eric on April 04, 2017

If you got advice from someone you found really annoying - even if it was good advice from an interesting perspective - would you be able to get over how annoying the person talking your ear off is? That's basically where I am with this book. I think his advice is really interesting, and it's clear t......more

Goodreads review by Babak on April 07, 2020

"زنده باد همه‌ی کسانی که در مخمصه‌ی برآورده کردن رؤیاهایشان هستند." این آخرین جمله‌ای است که بن هاروویتز در کتاب "سختی کارهای سخت" می‌گوید و اشاره‌ای دارد به این سخن مارکس که "زندگی مخمصه است." کتاب سختی کارهای سخت، نوشته‌ی بن هاروویتز، کارآفرین سابق و سرمایه‌گذار خطرپذیر فعلی سیلیکون ولی است که در آ......more

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