Book Review: The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things-ben-horowitzs-honest-and-real-take-on-entrepreneurship/ The Hard thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz is a no holds barred take on leadership, culture and company strategy built upon his past experiences leading Loudcloud/Opsware as well as his current stint as partner at that famed silicon valley VC firm Andreesson and Horowitz. Ben Horowitz narrates a captivating tale of ups and downs at his startup, it's near death experience until an angel investor backed it up based only on Ben's vision and then its eventual sale to HP for $1.6 billion. Ben Horowitz provides his insights into hard questions for a variety of interesting topics including how to build a workplace and program its culture, why training is important, how to minimize politics, how to do one on one's with employees, how to hire employees and executives, the right way to layoff, how to scale companies, how to become a great CEO and solvin...