Ben Horowitz: "What You Do Is Who You Are"

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, is out with a new book on company culture "What You Do is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture." He discusses how lessons learned from unexpected leaders can transform business, weighs in on workplace culture at Lyft, Uber and WeWork, and defends Facebook as it faces scrutiny from lawmakers. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0	Welcome to Boss Files. I'm Poppy Harlow. You may be a founder with a visionary idea,
0:38.0	an employee at a young startup, or at a big company. But when you think of your company's culture,
0:43.4	what goes through your head? Is it ping pong tables and beanbag chairs and free employee lunch?
0:50.2	Those are all great, of course, but my guest today says they're not culture. So what is company culture truly? And how do you create it? Ben Horowitz is the co-founder of the venture capital
0:55.7	firm and Driesen Horowitz. Think early investors in Facebook, Lyft, and many more companies.
1:02.0	His first book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, is a Silicon Valley Bible for entrepreneurs.
1:07.5	Now he's taking that one step further in a new book out this month called What You Do is Who You Are.
1:14.8	The CEO really has to be the chief ethics officer. But look, companies don't have bad ethics
1:21.6	because they intend to have bad ethics general. Like that's very, very, very rare. It's a systems problem.
1:29.8	It's not a, I don't know what the difference between right and wrong or even like, you know,
1:36.7	I don't believe we want to do the right thing. It's a lack of implementation. He sits on the board
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