Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2024-05-01
Books mentioned on Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
"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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a comprehensive journalistic account of the 2008 global financial crisis, detailing the frantic efforts of Wall Street executives and government officials to prevent a complete collapse of the financial system.
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”
