Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2024-05-01

Books mentioned on Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities

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"It turns out the spreadsheet is not actually the business, despite what you may have learned in business school." - Ben Horowitz Welcome back to "The Ben & Marc Show" featuring a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

Marc Andreessen discussed Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Too Big to Fail

    Andrew Ross Sorkin · at 1:17:47

    Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a comprehensive chronicle of the 2008 financial crisis told from the perspective of the Wall Street executives and government officials who tried to prevent a global economic collapse.

    Discussed
    “The whole book on the global financial crisis that Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote was called too big to fail and the whole thing was we wanted to not have the companies, you know, cuz you know, if a bank is if a bank is not systemically important if if a bank goes down the way a normal company goes down”
    Where to get it