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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, Genius, Magnet Systems, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta, Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, United Masters, and Usermind.

Latest Posts

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)

What We Can’t Reveal We Can’t Heal

by Terry Brown, Shaka Senghor, and Ben Horowitz
  • mobile (& messaging)
  • news
  • history

The Hustlers’s Guide to Suing the Man

by Makiri Duckett, Joshua Browder, Ben Horowitz, and Shaka Senghor
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • fintech
  • policy & regulation
  • Hustlin' Tech

From @bhorowitz

balajis.com@balajis

One of the more fascinating phenomena is people who think they understand economics that have never built a two-sided marketplace, coded a financial instrument, issued a digital currency, started a company, managed a cap table, met a payroll, or created a single job.

M. Holston-Alexander@meghalexander

While at @StanfordGSB, one of my professors played MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech in class. I cried hard. The words always move me so deeply, but never in the way it did sitting in class full of White students. I felt sorrow. The lights were out, so most people didn’t even notice.

Grant needs some sunshine 🌄@grantadever

Cannot recommend What You Do Is Who You Are by @bhorowitz enough Might be better than The Hard Thing About Hard Things I need to sleep on it now that I'm done reading it

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