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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, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta ($OKTA), Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, and UnitedMasters.

Latest Posts

$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

a16z Podcast: Designing a Culture of Reinvention

by Reed Hastings and Ben Horowitz
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • big company innovation
  • culture
  • going global
  • how innovation happens
  • book launches (and book pods)
  • Company Building 101
  • founder/maker stories
  • Netflix
  • Reed Hastings

16 Questions for Selling in COVID-19

by Martin Casado, Ben Horowitz, Peter Levine, Kristina Shen, and David Ulevitch
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • go to market
  • marketing
  • apparently our stuff is 16 (or multiples of 16!)
  • Company Building 101
  • coronavirus & the COVID-19 pandemic
  • sales (& partnerships)

From @bhorowitz

Roshan Cariappa 🇮🇳@RoshanCariappa

The most recommended book by founders on the @OperatorStartup podcast (by far) - https://t.co/T7tkPU2fIh @bhorowitz wrote the most real book on entrepreneurship and ounce for ounce the most useful one, too.

AriannaSimpson.eth@AriannaSimpson

I’m thrilled to announce our seed investment in @dynamic_xyz! They are on a mission to accelerate the adoption of wallet based authentication by making it frictionless for developers to create login, onboarding, and authorization flows. https://t.co/lFEMq4DGvn

Michael Blau@blauyourmind

gm, I built a tool to help people detect metamorphic smart contracts. What’s a metamorphic smart contract? Why is detecting them important? And how does the tool work? A thread 🧵 https://t.co/uTKOKvZzqM

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