Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2026-02-03
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Ben Horowitz: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #457
Ben Horowitz - Backing America’s Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP.457]
My guest today is Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. Since its founding in 2009, a16z has grown into one of the most influential firms in venture capital, reshaping how technology companies are funded and how power and ideas move through Silicon Valley and around the world.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, and discussed What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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High Output Management
High Output Management by Andrew S.
Recommended“His book is incredible. Everyone should read High Output Management.”
Where to get it
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What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz's What You Do Is Who You Are outlines practical strategies for building and maintaining strong business cultures by drawing on unexpected historical and modern examples.
Discussed“You've written a book about it. You've studied some very interesting cultures that you wrote about in the book. If you had to teach a seminar or something on what a culture is in the first place, and then how to design one”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I actually think that's the best thing I ever wrote was a forward to High Output Management. The reason I wrote that forward was, it was my favorite book, and I wrote the hard thing about hard things was basically intended to be the updated version of it.”
“And one of the ones I actually put in the hard thing about hard things, but I had three kids.”