Eric Siu interviewed over 400 founders and billionaires and found one book they all recommend: Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things. It's about surviving entrepreneurship's brutal realities, not the glamorous version. The core idea: when things get terrible, keep going.
I've spoken to over 400 founders, billionaires, authors, millionaires. The number one book that's recommended by every single one of these people is The Hard Thing About Hard Things that's written by Ben Horowitz. And this is a book that talks about struggles, the struggles of entrepreneurship. It talks about how it's not always sunshine and rainbows. And it talks about sometimes how you have to eat poo-poo in order to move forward and how sometimes things are just gonna be numb. And it's about how you react to that situation, how you power through that situation. And the quote that always comes back to me is the Winston Churchill quote, if you're going through hell, keep going.
