The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Embrace the struggle.

And it’s those fears and controversial opinions that hold the clues to dealing with hard things.

running things, strategy, and deals.

hiring for strength rather than for lack of weakness,

First, technical founders are the best people to run technology companies.

elite mixture of intelligence, logic, and courage.

Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions.

Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In

The One Minute Manager.