Rating: ⁸⁄₁₀ Read: 2016.01.27

Ben Horowitz is famous for being one of the main guy behind Netscape and the founder of one the best VC today, called Andreseen & Horowitz. This book is an attempt to show some routines or processes which enable the previous distruptors (think Google, Facebook) to create massive businesses.

• Every day have a staff meeting: Ask what is missing from the product?
• Culture beats everything, if someone come up with a failure, reward him.
• When recruiting during hard times consider only the strengths of a candidate, not the lack of weaknesses.
• People > Product > Profit
• As a CEO you main goal is to create the best workplace as possible
• Have a compulsory functional and management training for the newcomers.
• One-on-one is important, manager is there for asking only and listening. Its the meeting of the junior, he gives the agenda.
• Implement a shocking feature to the culture, which represents the value of the company well, like Amazon’s desks.
• If you have 2 competing teams, swap each other for a day (*Funday Friday”). Then they have better perspectives on each others job.