Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitzis an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. In the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 June 1966
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'
It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.
It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually
It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.