Business: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
March 31st, 2021
27 mins 20 secs
Season 5
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The Hard thing about hard things
A valuable book for tech entrepreneurs, The Hard thing about hard things helps throw light at the challenges a CEO goes through.
Ben Horowitz launched Loudcloud in 1999, just before the dotcom bubble. Their company offers enterprise SaaS to tech clients. Then the trouble began
- Because of the dotcom bubble, many of their customers went out of business
- Had to IPO to survive, during hard times
- After going public, they pivoted to become OPSware, a radically different business
- They got threatened to delist from NASDAQ
- They had mass employee revolts
In the end, he sold OPSware for 1,6B to HP
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