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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · 2014

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish recommends it affiliate
Building a company is hard. Gut-wrenchingly hard. There are no short cuts to building a billion-dollar-plus business. In this book, Ben Horowitz recounts the insane story of how his company that should have failed dozens of times came back from the brink over and over again. He shares specific advice for handling the tough situations a founder of a high growth business will face. The longer I'm working on startups as a founder, the more helpful this book has been.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

Marc Andreessen recommends it
If you want all the bad words, Ben’s book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

on a podcast · 1 Jan 2018

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.