Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Opsware, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and held senior product and engineering roles at Netscape and AOL. 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 holds a BA from Columbia University and an MS in computer science from UCLA.
“Adam's only had one idea. Yeah, this is the idea... he's been following this idea for his whole life now. And so... it's the thing that makes it so powerful.”
Source→“A big mission of our firm is kind of trying to preserve that special thing that is America. And that means America has to be a leader. It has to be a leader economically. It has to be a leader culturally. It has to be a leader militarily. And to do that, we have to be a leader technologically.”
Source→“The third one, which is a combination of everything in a way, is: is the culture such that young people, the most capable young people, willing to make the biggest contribution — do they get social status reward? Is it cool to either start or join a new company? And almost no, very few countries have that.”
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