
The Right Kind of Asshole

SCREENING FOR THE RIGHT KIND OF AMBITION
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The biggest leak in my early years was that I frequently assumed that if I, or my very qualified friends, could execute on a plan, then my investments could, too. I assumed that all founders were dogged and die-hard, but I learned the hard way—after a half-dozen startups gave up and gave their investors five to fifty cents on the dollar back—that n
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