Venture Capitalist, Author
Ben Horowitz is an American businessman and cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His bestselling book The Hard Thing About Hard Things draws on his experience as a CEO to offer frank advice on the toughest challenges of building and running a company.
by Ben Horowitz
Horowitz shares hard-won lessons from running a startup through near-death crises. There is no formula, leadership means making impossible decisions when there are no good options.
The books Ben Horowitz references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Andrew Grove
Grove distils Intel's management philosophy into actionable principles. Output is what matters - a manager's job is to increase the output of their team and adjacent teams.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.
Who Ben draws from, and who draws from Ben — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.