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Ben Horowitz was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), acquired by HP for $1.6B in 2007 — the operational crucible behind much of his writing on wartime leadership.

Horowitz is the author of 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' and 'What You Do Is Who You Are,' the books where the Peacetime/Wartime CEO framework is most fully developed.

Multiple linked talks ('Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership' with Jorge Conde; 'When Business is Battle') suggest the framework's core claim: the management techniques that win in peacetime (expanding the market) actively fail in wartime (existential threat), and vice versa.

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