Hi, this is Ben Horowitz and you're listening to the Jordan Harbinger Show.

Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

I want you to see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave

so that you can become a better thinker.

And today, a great thinker in his own right, founding partner of superstar venture capital

firm and Jason Horowitz.

We've got Ben Horowitz here with us today, recorded on location here at the offices of

A16Z in Palo Alto, California.

Ben has written a few excellent books and this latest one takes on historical events

and turns them into business lessons, especially with respect to culture, corporate culture.

I know that that might sound a little bit like corporate speak here, but today we're

going to explore what the Haitian slave revolt can teach us about running a business.

We'll also learn how prison culture, as discussed by a couple of Silicon Valley geeks, which

is us, by the way, influences how some billion-dollar tech unicorns are managed.

And we'll discover that culture and core values can actually have a dark side.

And we'll see how that dark side shows up in companies like Uber, for example, and can

lead to some pretty big disasters.

It's always fun to sit down with someone like Ben who's objectively being very successful

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