Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he established in 2009 alongside Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of the enterprise software company Opsware, acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are, and serves on the boards of companies including Databricks and UnitedMasters.
“Nas said, that's not going to work that way in hip hop because in hip hop, you can't just give somebody money. It has to be more than that. It has to be a recognition of what they did and who they are.”
Source→“It takes somebody, it takes somebody... it takes a crazy rap fan.”
Source→“It was two things that it was starting paid in full, but also Ben investing in United Masters. The idea was like, how do you contribute so much culturally, but yet the financial take is so meaningless?”
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