The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Rating: 3.0 / 5 · Read · Finished 2023-09-24

Main lesson: A CEO’s job is to make hard decisions. Be informed, then make the right choice even if it’s not good or popular.

The first part is an autobiography. The second part is a bunch of bite-size very-specific pieces of advice for founder CEOs.

I’m not interested in becoming a CEO, but it helped me understand a little bit what a CEO does and what problems they face.