BATB score: 4.45/10 >85% of the book's CEO-content can not be applied by the average Joe. Ben Horowitz's real-life CEO struggles on hiring, running, merging, selling, and firing people/companies from penny stocks to 1 billion sold, are beyond our pay grades. It's difficult to relate to; I am just a low-life-form company's minion. But I do understand this better that CEOs can be jerks with that "company before you" attitude. I guess that's why CEOs have a corner office to eat