What Ben Horowitz thinks about agency
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist; co-founder and CEO of Loudcloud/Opsware, co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in 2009, and author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014).
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2 dated positions, 2011, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Horowitz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThere comes a time in every company’s life where it must fight for its life. If you find yourself running when you should be fighting, you need to ask yourself: “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?”
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Their wordsI believe that the answer is yes, but it’s hard. Mastering both wartime and peacetime skill sets means understanding the many rules of management and knowing when to follow them and when to violate them.
↗Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (a16z)a16z.com 2nd of 3 in this piece