Episode · a16z Podcast · 2023-06-14
Erik Torenberg & Ben Horowitz: books mentioned on a16z Podcast (Jun 2023)
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
Ben Horowitz discussed No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer details the radical management philosophy and unconventional corporate culture behind Netflix.
Discussed“you know Reed Hastings in his book which I argued with him about um after he wrote it said like they sent an email at Netflix saying like we fired this guy”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Hard Thing About Hard Things
“so I think you have to do the hard thing about hard things and there I think there's really no option but to have the conversation and they know people don't say look man you're checked out”
“I once had an executive who came and he had read like The Stephen Covey seven habits Highly Effective People he's like well what I'm gonna do is uh first I'm going to seek to understand and then be understood”