i think everybody who's decided to do this job or pursue this career has their own set of hard things about hard things. And i think there's comfort in knowing that you're not alone. Stay focus, keep on going and you'll find a way. When i learn sometimes you have the highest form of courage is realizing that what you're doing isn't working and is not going to work,. Is painful as it may be to achieve something better.
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.