Opsweare Was Not What We Had

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oxide was born from the realization that maybe there was actually a gem hidden in what we were doing. They had no idea what they were asking us for, in their mind, was not what we had. The only way you could install the soft word a customer sit was you had to bring along aserver with you from our headquarters who was already running the soft i stricken in sane. As we had all or ip addresses and a network naming scheme hard coated into the sophorus, it took took over a year just to make it so you could install it in celicon valley.

In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google) share stories and lessons learned from doing whatever they could to help their companies survive in hard times, including making and living through major pivots, selling new products before they were ready, figuring out financing with market and industry headwinds against them, and more. From their days together at LoudCloud to Jason’s experience at Lytro, and beyond, a common theme emerges: a CEO’s job is lonely in these moments and the hardest thing about a big pivot or change might be in finding the courage to make the decision in the first place.