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Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z.

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Founder of
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
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Opsware (company)
Opsware (company)
Birthdate
June 13, 1966
Nationality
United States
United States
Author of
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What You Do Is Who You Are
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Child of
David Horowitz
David Horowitz
Location
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California
Educated at
Columbia University
Columbia University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
Berkeley High School (California)
Berkeley High School (California)
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The Forbes Midas list 2022
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Engineer
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Businessperson
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Investor
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Muzy (company)
Muzy (company)
Wealthfront
Wealthfront
AppNexus
AppNexus
Fluther
Fluther
Nicira Networks
Nicira Networks
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Skype Qik
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Wellfound ID
bhorowitz0
ISNI
00000004335055580
Open Library ID
OL7987562A0
VIAF
3081812760

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AngelList URL
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Father
David Horowitz
David Horowitz
Medium URL
medium.com/@bhorowitz
Wikidata ID
Q4885859

Ben Horowitz is a California-based businessperson, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and a master's in the same discipline from the University of California-Los Angeles. He co-founded Opsware in 1999 and later co-founded Andreessen Horowitz in 2009. His literary works include The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are.

He 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.

He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are

Ben Horowitz is a co founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen

. 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

Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. .

Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.

He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line.

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.

Ben serves on the board of Any scale, Caffeine, Databricks, Mayvenn, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta ($OKTA), Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, and UnitedMasters.

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What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal - Andreessen Horowitz

Terry Brown, Shaka Senghor, and Ben Horowitz

https://a16z.com/2020/06/03/what-we-cant-reveal-we-cant-heal-transparency-technology-media/

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June 4, 2020

Which Way Do You Run? - Andreessen Horowitz

Ben Horowitz

https://a16z.com/2019/10/17/how-to-be-effective-ceo-leader/

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October 17, 2019

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