Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor.
- The Race to Recursive Self-Improving AI
- David George & Jack Altman on AI, Autonomy, and the Next $25 Trillion
- a16z Just Launched a School
- Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise
- Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era
- The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age
- Axios Pro Rata_ Director dispute
- Eric Vishria - A Decade of Lessons Investing in Software & Hardware - [Invest Like the Best, EP.486]
“I get pinged by Ben Horowitz... 'It changed my life. It's so great.'”
Source→“They're mad at Nicki Minaj now. They're mad at Kanye.”
Source→“He's talking now, but all he'll talk about is hip-hop.”
Source→“I didn't come up with this idea. It came from Rakim or it came from Rick Ross.”
Source→“Eminem can get in, but that's a very high level... to be Eminem.”
Source→“Mike Tyson had a great question on legacy. He's like, what are you talking about? I'm just going to be dust, dirt.”
Source→“Mark is like, hey, we should start another company... who's going to be the CEO? He's like, you.”
Source→“AOL used to fucking send a disc to you like you couldn't open your mail without getting in the AOL.”
Source→“Cancel HubSpot. I'm building my own CRM... affinity, cancel. Got my own fundraising platform.”
Source→“One of my favorite examples is Eleven Labs... they built a better product for developers. So, what does that do? Well, they've got a built-in set of customers and then they're in the data feedback loop.”
Source→“The demand for NVIDIA chips right now is just unlimited. Like, they can't make enough chips.”
Source→“OpenAI went, like, zero to $20 billion since November 2022... the price of a token is dropping, like, 100-fold a year.”
Source→“Traffic deaths, huge problem. Solved with Waymo. You know, cancer, we're solving that for sure.”
Source→“There's no amount of pressure where he's not going to perform... That's why he's probably the greatest entrepreneur of our time.”
Source→“What matters is, are their strengths world class? So are they the best in the world at something? And then you overlook everything else.”
Source→“Hey, Ben, I heard you're having a barbecue tomorrow... I want to record in your studio.”
Source→“She's like helpfulness. I was like, she's right... everybody wants a venture capitalist who's helpful.”
Source→“He's been promoted like eight times. And that's because we know what he is, right? Like we know the special thing that he has.”
Source→“Kendrick's career was also on the down... But he wasn't as far down as Nas was at the time.”
Source→“Ether came out when Nas was at his lowest. He was way down... Left me for dead, stiff and rotten, the Nas line.”
Source→“Roland Fryer, the economist at Harvard, just wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal... it turns out the cities with hip-hop out[performed].”
Source→“Kamala came to the CEO barbecue... she'd been in my house many times.”
Source→“I spoke to Sundar at Google. I spoke to Dave Ricks and Eli Lilly. Yeah. Tim Cook. Nobody got a meeting with Biden the whole four years.”
Source→“It wasn't fucking black music. It was music. Right. But the program for it made it smaller than it was.”
Source→“Set the tone for cloud computing. Had to sell the heart of the company to keep the thing going... $1.65 billion exit.”
Source→“I started as an engineer at a company called Silicon Graphics.”
Source→“Netscape went public. I think I got a million dollars out of that, which was crazy.”
Source→“There was a lot of talent and a lot of ambition, I would say, you know, out of NewMe.”
Source→“By using GPUs that you don't even own, that Anthropic owns, can chase down HubSpot for your use case.”
Source→“The Academy is designed to become a profitable business... The $40M raise was deliberately sized for multi-year runway... Named angel investors in the $40M Academy round.”
Source→“Ben Horowitz... co-presenting with Ghodsi at RSA on the cyber/data/AI market convergence.”
Source→“Dan Rose, who was the head of CorpDev at the time, said, Alex, that's great. It sounds like you can collect a lot of silver bricks, but I'm like, I have so many gold bricks, I can't even pick them all up.”
Source→“You can throw money at the problem. And you can throw money at almost any problem. And that works. And so that is just completely different than anything we've ever lived through.”
Source→“Remember the dark fiber? Basically every GPU that's being created is already pre-sold... This is like we're flat out and people are reselling GPUs for four times what they bought them for.”
Source→“Meta's got a whole program to train people up... It's like a new job corps where they train people for free to do this job.”
Source→“He had this startup called TrialPay. He was trying to sell his services to Facebook. And Dan Rose said, Alex, that sounds great, it sounds like you can collect a lot of silver bricks, but I have so many gold bricks I can't even pick them all up.”
Source→“What he built was kind of a pure software AI thing... Michael could probably do that, you know, 10 years from now. But today, that would have been hard.”
Source→“He bought a whole rubber tree plantation in the Amazon jungle... he wanted to own like the complete vertical thing.”
Source→“It's specifically interested in the firm's directorates at Databricks (Ben Horowitz) and Fivetran (Martin Casado).”
Source→“Ben Horowitz, Mark and Ben had started LoudCloud. It was still in stealth. And Ben gave me an offer to be his assistant.”
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