Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. They discuss everything from the inspiration behind Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, how the open Internet was secured, the difference between wartime and peacetime CEOs, scaling culture, and understanding how bio & healthcare differs from other forms of technology.

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0:00.0	Culture is not a set of beliefs.
0:04.0	This is so key, it's a set of actions.
0:07.0	And Ben says, you owe 20 bucks.
0:10.0	Okay, so I reach into my wallet and you know the norm was you put the cash on the table.
0:14.6	Yeah. So I reach into my wallet and I pull out and I unfortunately only had a hundred dollars
0:20.1	and I kind of pull it out and Ben sees it and he's like we don't make change motherfucker
0:24.3	If you show up five minutes late 10 minutes light then you can say you have respect for what it means to build a company but you don't really have
0:35.6	respect for what it means to build a company because you wouldn't do that if you did.
0:40.7	You know what it's better to be right than consistent.
0:44.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast.
0:48.0	This is your host, Steph Smith, and today we've got quite the treat for you.
0:52.0	You'll get to hear some exclusive audio from our... Today we've got quite the treat for you.
0:52.7	You'll get to hear some exclusive audio
0:54.8	from our Bio and Health Build Conference.
0:57.2	And you'll hear directly from A16C co-founder Ben Horowitz
1:01.1	in conversation with Bio and Health GP Jorge Conte.
1:04.5	They'll talk about everything from the inspiration behind Ben's book, The Hard Think
1:09.3	about Hard Things, which by the way includes a wonderful story about how the open internet was secured
1:15.1	and how that wasn't always given.
1:16.7	You'll also get to hear about some surprising leaders from history, the differences
1:21.4	between wartime and peacetime CEOs, what building culture really means, and since this was run by our bio and health team, you'll also get to hear what the differences are between bio and health care innovation versus
1:34.3	other kinds of technology. I think you're really going to enjoy this episode.
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