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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 Shop@AOL 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 the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Caffeine, Databricks, Foursquare, Genius, Lyft, Magnet Systems, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta, Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, United Masters, and Usermind.

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Why We’re Investing in Anyscale

by Martin Casado and Ben Horowitz
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Kristina Shen

by Martin Casado, Peter Levine, David Ulevitch, and Ben Horowitz
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a16z Podcast: The Stories and Code of Culture Change

with Ben Horowitz and Sonal Chokshi
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Bernard J. Tyson

by Ben Horowitz
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There has been a genre of “official misinformation” where Washington Post, Wired, USA Today, BuzzFeed, etc have posted dangerously trivial headlines comparing coronavirus to the flu. Fortunately, NYT has been publishing the science from NEJM, Lancet, CDC, WHO. Credit where due. https://t.co/cbkE4ipq10

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