The Hard Things About Scaling: Executive Hiring with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi

Published: June 14, 2023, 2:30 p.m.

b'The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don\\u2019t tell you is that once you\\u2019ve found it, product-market fit brings its own set of challenges, particularly when it comes to scaling rapidly and hiring the right executives at the right time.\\n\\nDrawing from their extensive experiences, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi sit down to talk about the hardest things about executive hiring and firing, and what is at stake.\\n\\nThey dive into the common reasons an exec fails, why sometimes micromanagement is a good idea, and the difference between someone who has written a playbook and someone who has only run one.'