The Hard Thing about Hard Things (Audiobook)

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The first 10% or so of The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's abridged autobiography. It's a humanizing and necessary setup for the pragmatic advice which follows. If you're hoping for more of the personal narrative angle throughout the rest of the book, i.e. the life of a CEO of a yo...

from rivkat

Advice about how to run a successful business from a venture capitalist. Kind of interesting just to get his worldview, which includes a fair amount of advice about transitioning from small to big, and occasionally about firing the people who worked well for a smaller firm and not so well for a b...

from Narilka

The Hard Thing about Hard Things provides insight into the mindset required to be a founding CEO of a start up. It's a scary place to be knowing your every action will impact the future of the company and all the people who work for you! Ben Horowitz starts the book off with an abbreviated biogra...

from wyclif

Not impressed. I was hoping for a hard-nosed business book instead of what this turned out to be, which is some stories woven together with CEO and success aphorisms. Author is good at storytelling, but weak in self-awareness. Books like this have a certain entertainment value for venture capital...

from breic

I thought there would be more stories, and less bland management advice. Since I'm not a tech startup CEO, I'm not really in the target audience. Still, the introduction and the last third of the book were interesting.