Ben Horowitz · 2014
A guide to entrepreneurship and management focusing on the difficult decisions required to lead a company.
Tom Verrilli considers it the best book on product management due to the breadth of challenges it covers.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Okay, not to be cliched, but The Hard Thing About Hard Things, I still think is the best book written about product management, just from a breadth of things that you have to go through…”
Why: He considers it the best book on product management due to the breadth of challenges it covers.
Tom Verrilli, Guest on Lenny's PodcastThis CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
The author, or a host talking with the author, discusses the book. Not counted as an endorsement.
“And then Ben's book, you know, Hard Things is it was the first emotionally honest book about business that was ever written. And that's why founders love it.”
Why: He praises it for being the first emotionally honest book about the struggles of being a founder.
Anish Acharya, Guest on Lenny's PodcastWhy companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
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