The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answer by Ben Horowitz
Feb 27
1 min read

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 alone. #idontwannabeyouanymore
Best for: CEOs
Best as: gifts for CEOs
Best to: read "Trillion Dollar Coach" instead; guaranteed same amount of praise for Bill Campbell

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