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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

By: Ben Horowitz
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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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.

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great advice for CEOs of companies 15+ employees, otherwise advice is too early to be valuable

great advice for CEOs of companies 15+ employees

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Easy to follow with stories that resonated with my own experiences on a much smaller scale.

Great read, very useful for senior Execs

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I really enjoyed this and learnt a ton. I highly recommend this book for anyone that owns or runs a business.

Fantastic book!

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everything is perfect amazing looking forward to read more books using this app. keep it up

really enjoy reading book

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I know what it's like to be alone with these decisions. great to hear that this is normal.

a great listen

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This book is great because it's a book about reality. Sometimes it's totally ridiculous what you have to go through as the CEO of a large or small company. But this book makes you realise you're not alone. You're not the only one who doesn't know what your doing :)

Insightful, funny, true, excellent

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The narrative behind the writer's journey is detailed and insightful - you really feel part of the story's ups and downs. The advice provided is invaluable as its delivered from someone who has been there and done it.
The audible version is perfectly narrated.

Insightful

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This is the most insightful business book I’ve ever read/ listened to and I’ve read a ton!! I even went onto buy a hard copy so I could re-read it and annotate.

So good it promoted my first and only online review

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Great narrator! one of a kind! The book is very interesting helpful and veey well written! Fun!

awesome narrator! awesome writer!

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Really enjoyed listening to this and took a lot away to apply in my business. Nice work Ben.

A great book

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