1: “Why does everybody hate Ben so much?”

That was the question asked by Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz‘s mother-in-law.

Ben called an all-company meeting, which his wife Felicia typically attended.

“This time her parents were in town, so they came, too,” Ben writes in The Hard Thing About Hard Things.

It was the year 2000, and Ben was in a difficult spot.

A year earlier, his start-up, Loudcloud, … continue reading