Business: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
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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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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
Host rating of 'The Hard thing about hard things'
Nico
Rating: 6/10
Sam
Rating: 6/10
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