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The provided content does not contain the text of "The Struggle." It appears to be an author index page from a16z.com listing Ben Horowitz's bio and other talks/posts. Please paste the actual essay text so highlights can be extracted faithfully.

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The content provided is not the essay "The Struggle" — it's a directory page listing Ben Horowitz's bio and other a16z content. No substantive essay text was included to extract highlights from.

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Ben Horowitz is cofounder of a16z, author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are, and former CEO of Opsware (acquired by HP for $1.6B in 2007).

Bio details from the page.

Recurring themes across Horowitz's linked content include wartime vs. peacetime CEO leadership, culture as code, executive hiring at scale, and surviving startup struggle — but the actual arguments are not present in this scrape.

Inferred from titles listed.

To extract real highlights from "The Struggle," the actual essay body is needed — passages like Horowitz's definition of The Struggle as the feeling that you are not good enough, that you should not be CEO, and that greatness is luck.

Requesting the source text.

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