The Hard Thing About Hard Things

1 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2026 by Tom Verrilli · said 16 times in 8 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Sep 6, 2026 · 1 mention · from 56:44
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2025 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode

$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z) Sep 11, 2025 · 5 mentions · from 1:37
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord Aug 24, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 1:04:33
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal Jun 1, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 1:16:20
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products May 15, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 1:04:15
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode

Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta Oct 17, 2024 · 1 mention · from 1:04:42
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary Nov 10, 2022 · 1 mention · from 16:05
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy) Sep 18, 2022 · 1 mention · from 1:07:08
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Aug 2, 2026 positive

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Verrilli: The Hard Thing About Hard Things is the best PM book

“The hard thing about hard things, I still think is the best book written about product management. Just from a like breadth of things that you have to go through and try and do and screw up a lot.”

Tom Verrilli Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 1:18:02 This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

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