Ben Horowitz

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including demoting (or firing) a loyal friend; whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them; if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company; how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you; what to do when smart people are bad employees; why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one; whether you should sell your company, and how to do it. Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want? To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, an American ex-con who created the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture. Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture. What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted? Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow.

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What You Do Is Who You Are

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.

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Em Você é o que você faz, Ben Horowitz, o autor do best-seller O lado difícil das situações difíceis, centra seus esforços em uma questão crucial para qualquer empresa: como criar e manter a cultura que se deseja para a organização? Ao combinar lições de sua própria experiência profissional com outras especialmente selecionadas a partir de suas leituras sobre a história, Horowitz explora situações em que os líderes transpuseram conjunturas econômicas e sociais para remodelar a forma como as pessoas se comportavam, criando assim culturas inovadoras e duradouras. Seus exemplos incluem, entre outros, o haitiano Toussaint Louverture, que comandou a única revolta de escravos bem-sucedida da história, e Gengis Khan, que soube usar a diversidade em seu favor e criou o maior império do mundo. É com base nesse profundo material humano, enriquecido por exemplos de ações de variados CEOs do Vale do Silício, que Horowitz nos mostra o que é preciso para se tornar o tipo de líder que se deseja ser – e que os outros desejam seguir. Pois uma empresa não é sim- plesmente os valores que ela lista na parede, sua missão ou muito menos uma campanha de marketing. São suas ações que de fato definem quem você é.

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MUITA GENTE FALA SOBRE COMO É BOM SER EMPRESÁRIO, MAS SÓ BEN HOROWITZ DIZ SEM PAPAS NA LÍNGUA COMO É DIFÍCIL DIRIGIR UMA EMPRESA Em 'O lado difícil das situações difíceis', Ben Horowitz, cofundador da Andreessen Horowitz e um dos empreendedores mais respeitados e experientes do Vale do Silício, conta a história de como ele mesmo fundou, dirigiu, vendeu, comprou, geriu e investiu em empresas de tecnologia, oferecendo conselhos essenciais e normas de sabedoria prática para ajudar os empreendedores a resolver os problemas mais difíceis - aqueles de que as faculdades de administração não tratam. Horowitz, grande fã de rap, ilustra as lições empresariais com letras de suas músicas favoritas e fala a verdade nua e crua sobre os assuntos mais espinhosos, desde como demitir um amigo até saber o melhor momento para vender a empresa. "A experiência e perícia de Ben o tornam um dos líderes mais importantes não somente do Vale do Silício, mas também da economia global do conhecimento. Para quem quer que esteja interessado em construir, fazer crescer ou liderar uma empresa de primeira linha, este livro é um recurso incrivelmente valioso - e ao mesmo tempo é bem humorado e cheio de surpresas." (Mark Zuckerberg, cofundador e diretor executivo do Facebook)

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O lado difícil das situações difíceis

Cet ouvrage retrace les difficultés rencontrées par Ben Horowitz au cours de sa carrière d’entrepreneur et de dirigeant. Que faire quand on a fait une erreur et que tout va mal ? Comment prendre la bonne décision quand toutes les décisions sont mauvaises ? A partir de sa propre histoire (son enfance, ses débuts, sa première société) et de ses expériences, il donne des conseils et des leçons de vie, sans langue de bois (comment renvoyer ses employés ou comment maîtriser ses propres démons). La qualité la plus importante d’un PDG est, pour lui, la capacité à se concentrer pour prendre la moins mauvaise des décisions, quand il aurait plutôt envie de fuir ou de se cacher. Ses conseils sont souvent brutalement honnêtes, il critique le “délire de la positivité”, il faut dire les choses telles qu’elles sont, car l’honnêteté engendre la confiance. Il n’y a pas de recette miracle, ni d’ingrédient secret. Il faut garder en tête que, quand les choses vont mal, tout le monde se fiche de votre entreprise — médias, investisseurs, conseil d’administration, employés. Ce n’est pas d’eux qu’il faut s’occuper mais de vos collaborateurs, des produits et des résultats financiers : si votre entreprise est un endroit où il fait bon travailler, vous aurez une chance de vous en sortir. Enfin quand une entreprise grandit, elle rencontre des difficultés nouvelles : ce qui était facile peut devenir ardu, comme la communication, la structure de l’organisation, l’élaboration des process. Le défi consiste à grandir sans dégrader tout ce qui a fait la force de l’entreprise.

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The Hard Things About Hard Things - A Complete Summary! The Hard Things About Hard Things is a best-selling novel written by Ben Horowitz. Besides being a novel, The Hard Things About Hard Things is also a guide for all new entrepreneurs and those who want to become an entrepreneur or start new business. Horowitz uses his own life experience in order to describe what it takes for a person to become successful as a leader and entrepreneur. He also offers many examples which explain that things are not always as they seem. For example, highly intelligent people do not always become great employees. In order to explain his thesis and opinions, Horowitz uses many examples from his own life and from lives of people who influenced him. Because of that, The Hard Things About Hard Things is definitely a book that every person who wants to start a business and keep it growing should read. Here Is A Preview Of What You Will Get: -A summarized version of the book. -You will find the book analyzed to further strengthen your knowledge. -Fun multiple choice quizzes, along with answers to help you learn about the book. Get a copy, and learn everything about The Hard Things About Hard Things.

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Ein Unternehmen zu führen bedeutet, auch unangenehme Entscheidungen treffen und umsetzen zu müssen. Wie entlässt man Mitarbeiter? Wie degradiert man Freunde? Ist es in Ordnung, Personal von der Firma eines Freundes abzuwerben? "Wenn Facebook-Chef Mark Zuckerberg angesichts des brutalen Innovationstempos im Tech-Business die Furcht überkommt, dann holt er sich Rat bei einem Mann: Ben Horowitz". Mit diesen Worten leitet das manager-magazin seinen Artikel zum "Buch des Monats" ein. Venture-Capital-Guru Horowitz ist im Silicon Valley eine Legende - er ist einer der erfolgreichsten, erfahrensten und bekanntesten Wagniskapital¬geber im Brennpunkt der IT-Industrie. Horowitz erklärt, wie eine Führungskraft mit schwierigen Situationen umgehen sollte, um aus einem Start-up ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen zu machen. Dabei gibt er praktisch umsetzbare Ratschläge für die schwierigen und unangenehmen Situationen im Leben eines Managers, die er mit eigenen Erfahrungen untermauert. Ein Buch aus der Praxis für die Praxis!

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