Author

Ben Casnocha

The entrepreneur who started his first company as a teenager and co-wrote Reid Hoffman's books on careers and work.

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The story and the impact

Ben Casnocha started his first company, Comcate, a software business serving local governments, while he was still in school, and wrote about the experience in his first book, My Start-Up Life (2007).

He went on to work closely with Reid Hoffman, including as his chief of staff, and co-wrote The Start-up of You (2012) with him, followed by The Alliance (2014) with Hoffman and Chris Yeh, a book about the relationship between employers and employees.

In 2017 he co-founded Village Global, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage founders. He has written a personal blog for many years, on books, decisions and careers.

The signature

Casnocha writes as someone who learned business by doing it young, and his work keeps returning to the same practical question: how a person should make decisions about work when the future is uncertain. The books he co-wrote with Hoffman share a compact, conversational style that turns frameworks into steps a reader can take the same week.