The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a brutally honest look a what it is like to create and run a business. Written by Ben Horowitz one of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists, it combines insight into building products, scaling, working with investors and managing a company through tough times.

While this is a book about managing a business, it is written from the perspective of running technology businesses specifically. Ben Horowitz began his career as a product manager, then became a tech CEO and then a venture capitalist. This session is useful for everyone interested in pursuing a career in tech, whether as an entrepreneur, an executive or an investor.

If you've read the book - great! If not, you can get a summary in the session.

The book goes into much more than the summary allows, so we recommend you buy it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/380YwgB

The session covers:

- Who is Ben Horowitz and why do we care what he says?
- The main premise of the book: growing a business is hard
- The CEO's responsibilities
- Wartime CEO vs Peacetime CEO
- How to pivot
- Good Product Manager vs Bad Product Manager
- Scaling
- Building Your Network

Note: the Building Your Network slide is not available in the video, but it is free in the Downloads in the TFNT Book club. It is useful, so have a look! The Book Club is free to join: https://www.techfornontechies.co/offers/owcskZDB/checkout