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From Loudcloud To Opsware
- Loudcloud offered early cloud hosting to enterprise customers and later pivoted to Opsware, which sold to HP for $1.6B.
- Ben Horowitz built lessons from this journey into his leadership playbook.
Hire For Strength, Not Absence Of Weakness
- Hire for strength: recruit people who bring clear strengths, not merely lack of weaknesses.
- Prioritize candidates who speak in terms of 'our company' and focus on team results.
Don't Poach Friends' Employees
- Avoid raiding employees from friends' companies to protect business relationships.
- Require transparency: have interested employees tell their current CEO before you recruit them.