Brace yourself for the main event Name a rapper (VC) that I ain't influenced! -- Ben Horowitz, keynote at Startup Grind Global,arrived on stage wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Toussaint LOuverture and the words: General of Rebellion, emblazoned underneath. In a morning VC session,GGV Capital's Jeff Richards had cited Horowitz's book,The Hard Thing About Hard Things,noting that this book hadinspired an investorlike him - to change his mindset about being more empathic concerning the hard work that foundersgo through.For Jeff, that meant going those extra miles to help a founder secure a mortgage so that the founder had one less thing to worry about. Onstage, Horowitz tells ofToussaint LOuverture, the Haitian slave who led the only successful slavery revolt in history. To inspire the talk, he asked friendsAdmiral

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