The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · first published 2014
Mentioned 17 time(s) by 13 guest(s).
Anish Acharya on Lenny's Podcast (2026-09-06): recommend
“…And then Ben's book. Hard Things is, it was the first emotionally honest book about business…”
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Tom Verrilli on Lenny's Podcast (2026-08-02): recommend
“…The Hard Thing about Hard Things I still think is the best book written about product management…”
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
Ben Horowitz on Lenny's Podcast (2025-09-11): mention
“…And so the survival book has a bigger audience.…”
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
Ben Horowitz on Lenny's Podcast (2025-09-11): mention
“…a lot of why I wrote that book was just to nanalyze it…”
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
Garrett Lord on Lenny's Podcast (2025-08-24): recommend
“…Hard Things About Hard Things obviously, but these are all quite common books.…”
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
Dmitry Zlokazov on Lenny's Podcast (2025-05-15): recommend
“…The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Actually read it quite some time ago, but I found myself recommending it to other product managers most often.…”
Anneka Gupta on Lenny's Podcast (2024-10-17): recommend
“…The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, such a great book, great again about mindset of how to approach hard things.…”
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
Christian Idiodi on Lenny's Podcast (2023-12-21): recommend
“…I love Ben said the hard thing about hard things I love.…”
Bobby Hundreds on The Tim Ferriss Show (2023-05-15): recommend
“…I put them onto books like that. Like The Hard Thing About Hard Things or…”
Jason Shah on Lenny's Podcast (2022-09-18): recommend
“…The Hard Thing About Hard things.…”
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
Harley Finkelstein on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-12-12): recommend
“…Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is almost like a modern iteration of High Output Management…”
Harley Finkelstein — Tactics and Strategies from Shopify, the Future of Retail, and More (#486)
Daniel Ek on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-12-06): recommend
“…The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz is also really good for someone who's first time journey…”
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify — Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Top Performance (#484)
Drew Houston on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-08-29): recommend
“…a favorite book that's more about the experience of running a company is Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things…”
Drew Houston on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-08-29): recommend
“…one of the great things that Ben wrote in his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is the hardest part of being a CEO…”
Marc Andreessen on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-02): recommend
“…for that, you have to read Ben’s book…”
Investing Wisdom from Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Chris Sacca, and Others (#270)
Marc Andreessen on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-02): recommend
“…If you want all the bad words, read Ben’s book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things.…”
Investing Wisdom from Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Chris Sacca, and Others (#270)
Marc Andreessen on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-01-02): recommend
“…Ben's book is good. I think Peter Teal's book is self recommending and is an excellent book, Zero to One.…”