Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Ben Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and former technology CEO

Ideas

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains how company culture gets set

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains why management books don't help in a crisis

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Ben Horowitz explains why leaders should run toward fear

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz on Toussaint Louverture’s slave-owner solution

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains why founders fail at the CEO job

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz on what managerial leverage means

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Ben Horowitz on what to consider before demoting an executive

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains wartime vs. peacetime CEO decision-making

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains why you don’t want an enthusiastic sales hire

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains why hiring executives is hard

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz explains why big companies need subcultures

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz on how a 1791 army used encoded songs to coordinate

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Intro

▶️$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)1:37:59 · 11 Sep 2025

▶️How to Manage with Ben Horowitz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 15)49:59 · 20 Apr 2017

▶️Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business1:04:52 · 15 Oct 2025

▶️Ben Horowitz's framework for tough management decisions05:25 · 26 Dec 2023

Deep

📕The Hard Thing About Hard Things1 min read · Apr 2023

📕What You Do Is Who You Are1 min read · Apr 2023

✍️Hiring Executives: If You've Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?11 min read · 13 Oct 2010

🎧The Hard Things About Scaling: Executive Hiring34 min read · 14 Jun 2023

Other operators

Keith RaboisTechnology investor and former operating executive

Gibson BiddleFormer VP of Product at Netflix

Deb LiuFormer CEO of Ancestry and creator of Facebook Marketplace

Casey WintersFormer Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite

Gokul RajaramFormer product executive at Google, Facebook, and Square

Claire Hughes JohnsonFormer COO of Stripe

Chris HadfieldFormer ISS commander and astronaut

Jamie DimonJPMorgan Chase CEO