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Ben Horowitz

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Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect the greatest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.

Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship [email protected] service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.

Ben has an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Ben serves on the board of Anyscale, Caffeine, Databricks, Mayvenn, NationBuilder, Okta ($OKTA), Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, and UnitedMasters.

Latest Posts

Ben Horowitz on How the Best Leaders Build Culture

by Ben Horowitz and David Weiden
  • culture
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a16z is Moving to the Cloud

by Ben Horowitz
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  • announcements

$9B to Build the Future

by Ben Horowitz
  • news
  • growth (late stage venture)

Investing in Cresta: Supercharging Agents in Real Time

by Carl Eschenbach, Kais Khimji, and Ben Horowitz
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • announcements

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One of the most exciting things happening in games and crypto! https://t.co/Xx2PLPQ2pa

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Fun with prompt injection. ChatGPT can't read the web - but it can extrapolate from text in the URL, even if that URL doesn't actually exist. (I managed to work @bhorowitz in too ;) https://t.co/Wd4YYQELfA

Zack Kanter@zackkanter

The Verge – displaying its usual profound misunderstanding of the topics it covers – says 'predicting the future is the point of banking.' The point of banking is making decisions such that the bank thrives regardless of which future it encounters. https://t.co/1KrpU9Ixt5

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