Ben also has a reputation in the valley as a no-bullshit guy, so this is valuable So he offers the prospect of excellent data from the inside. They weathered NASDAQ delisting threats, mass employee revolts.
They pivoted as a public corporation close to bankruptcy which is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies. further up in the backend of the managed services stack).
They pivoted to become Opsware, a tech services firm (i.e. They IPOd in a post-bubble environment with a declining market. They weathered the dot com bubble burst, but it was touch and go (since most of their clients were other tech firms going bankrupt). They were technological pioneers in that space. You might be better off reading some Drucker.įirst: the absolute preliminaries: Ben Horowitz co-founded LoudCloud with Marc Andreessen in 1999, with a plan to do enterprise managed services (what has now grown to the SaaS and IaaS space). I'm not so sure that they generalize to the point of making a good management guide. Ben Horowitz has good war stories, if you care about the narrow space of Venture Backed fast growth technology startups. 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.įilled 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.Įxecutive Summary: This is a book about Ben Horowitz's war stories. 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.
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, 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.
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