The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Another way that I think about seasons is you have peace time and wartime. Ben Horwitz talked about this in his book, A Hard Thing About Hard Things.”

“Now if you want to reference this Ben Horowitz has a great book called the hard thing about hard things where he talks about what a peacetime versus a wartime leader is”

“the only thing that prepares you for running a company is running a company uh and this is from ben horowitz he has a book called the hard thing about hard things which i love that book”

“Ben Horowitz, hard thing about hard things. You will have to make hard decisions in life and in leadership. Very important.”

“Ben horz great book the hard thing about hard things one of the best entrepreneur books all time first chapter is like how to fire your friends”

“And Peter's, Peter Thiel's book Zero to One is like that. And Ben's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is like that thing just like sells and gets translated into, you know, you say they can like 27 languages now or something and sell all over the world.”

“second is Ben Horowitz this book the hard thing about our things I can't recommend too highly”

“and Ben's book talks about this a lot he talks about what he calls the struggle which is that you know long and painful process between we think we have something you know and then global domination you know it's the struggle and it's just it's the uphill climb”

“I think Ben Horowitz and like The Hard Things About Hard Things is it is it very good book and inspiration for especially like a more sales-driven business.”

“And so so you have this this duo of like the doer and the like the philosopher. And the interesting thing about A16Z is his partner is is sort of like the executor sort of the executive, right? He wrote The Hard Thing About Hard Things where like he teaches you like about what it means to run a company.”

“I mean especially you know this the story you had in heart about heart things which is probably the best business book I've read which I read by the way before starting data bricks and influenced us a lot”

“and then Ben's book you know hard things is it was the first emotionally honest book about business that was ever written and that's why founders love it that's why I love it”

“there's Ben Harvest wrote this hard thing about hard things book and it's been super interesting for me because a lot of the things how it talks for instance about something called management depth”

“there's a line in the hard thing about hard things in your book not to embarrass you mark but I just wanted to quote it here this is you're talking about the relationship and what you said is even after eighteen years he upsets me almost every day by finding something wrong in my thinking”

“I mean when you read through again a book like the hard thing about hard things I just think about how there are so many skills in there that no one ever thought to teach me in high school right I mean my skills about decision-making skills about kind of emotional intelligence dealing with you know difficult decisions”

“you read his book the struggle like he didn't always know what he you know what the right answer was but his employees always felt that he did”

“I mean I think that to your point though it was my story and the reason for that I mean there was a really specific reason for that which is building these companies tends to be very dynamic and very situational”

“he goes because there's this phrase that i think andreessen horowitz uses which is or they made it more popular i guess i don't know if they invented it but ben horowitz has it in his book which is there's no silver bullet there's only lead bullets”

“I think uh you know the hard things about the hard things like badass.”

“and the other was the hard thing about hard things if i'm getting the title right i can never remember this title by ben horowitz”