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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ben Horowitz comes up
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 32:09 Anish Acharya You know, we are an off site where Ben was saying that the, the biggest risk in the past with the ideas were too big.
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 41:42 Martin Casado So, so prior to AI, there was always this battle between Eric Rize and Ben Horowitz, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Steven Sinofsky Like, and that Ben always makes this point.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 31:32 Gabriel Vasquez So about a year ago, we did one with Angela and Ben Horowitz, where he was a speaker and we brought the best Nordic founders all to Silicon Valley for a week.
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 26:52 Grant LaFontaine By the way, Ben, Ben and I started buying it after the dinner.
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- ▶ 59:13 Jesse Zhang I know like Ben was talking to us about the A-sixteen Z culture, right?
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 8:45 Marc Andreessen Um, and in fact, you know, our, our partner Ben's father himself was, was, was specifically tagged and attacked by the SPLC for, for unfairly, very unfairly, uh, for being racist, um, and was himself debanked, um, and, you know, really,…
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:04:15 David Haber I think Mark and Ben have done a very thoughtful job of trying to make the firm feel like a platform for smart entrepreneurial people to build on top of.
Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- ▶ 3:35 Chris Lyons Of CAA's model, and, and Ovitz was on the board of, of Mark and Ben's company, and so that's where they originally got the idea for, for A-sixteen Z and having a service-based model, um, and so when I first got the, got the job and started… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Earvin "Magic" Johnson And, ah, and also Ben as well, knowing him. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 Chris Lyons Ben says it, uh, you, you, you're either playing not to lose, or you're playing to win.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 45:40 unnamed speaker By the way, I thought you were gonna say the smartest thing Michael Jackson did was let his family use his likeness for the Michael Jackson live show, which I, according to Ben, has now generated more revenue, uh, from that show than his…
- ▶ 1:05:38 Alex Rampell Ben will show, like we all show up beyond just this team.
- ▶ 1:08:57 Alex Rampell Uh, in fact, you know, Ben is the CEO of injuries in Horowitz.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 41:38 Marc Andreessen And we, we, we, Ben and I just basically concluded that the stakes here were just way too high.
- ▶ 58:51 unnamed speaker What is something you and Ben disagree and commit on? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:31 Marc Andreessen I would say one is, um, you know, I mean, one is just, you know, my, my partners, I think are quite, you know, including Ben, are, are quite forthright, um, in telling me when I'm wrong.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 44:20 Erik Torenberg I think it's interesting to look at how people build out their, you know, like, for example, you know, Mark and Ben funnel everything through A, C, and Z, and are all in on A, C, and Z, and of course have, you know, other intellectual or… 2 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 18:36 Alex Rampell So we were at Ben Horowitz's house and I remember David, George, Ben and I were huddling around like, what do we do? 2 times in the scene
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
- ▶ 43:28 unnamed speaker I guess going back to this point that you were making on hiring, um, Ben has this great quote from, man, I think, 15 years ago that's aged really well. 2 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 38:37 Kevin Rose Feel this way with Mark and Ben, like in, in like that, when you get to sit with them, like, 3 times in the scene
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 13:45 Alex Rampell You know, Ben's book is selling out.
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 1:37 Scott Kupor In case Mark and Ben are listening. 3 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 23:11 Steven Sinofsky And it was really Mark and Ben at Netscape that changed the velocity of how companies work and the cloud.
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 1:02 Colin McCune I mean, look, a ton of credit to Mark and Ben for having sort of the vision on this.
- ▶ 16:07 Colin McCune It's Mark and Ben's story. 2 times in the scene
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 0:28 Erik Torenberg Uh, we were sort of talking offline about, about, uh, you know, we're talking about the Marx and Ben's, uh, evolution of the media episode.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 10:48 Martin Casado So like Ben Horowitz is an infra guy, even, you know, and honestly, I would say Mark is.
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 1:06 Aaron Levie Actually, um, uh, Ben Horowitz had this, um, early, uh, kind of blog post on basically, I think it was the title of the fat startup.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 2:13 Marc Andreessen Everybody's flat on their back in the financial investment world, um, and so Ben and I, in March of 2009, decided it's the perfect time to go start a venture capital firm, which was a absolutely unique view at the time.
- ▶ 13:52 Marc Andreessen So we started as generalists and, you know, Ben and I had both worked in both sort of consumer and enterprise, which are kind of the two big categories. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Marc Andreessen Ben saw this more than me, but like when Ben wrote his book, you know, and went on a tour, it's like every, it didn't matter what country he went to, thousands of kids show up, and they want to learn how to, how to do this, and, and look,… 2 times in the scene
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- ▶ 28:29 Anjney Midha Um, and Ben, Ben Horowitz, uh, we all know well has a quote I love, which is, he says, culture is not a set of beliefs.
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 0:31 Erik Torenberg Uh, our partner Ben is in the Middle East right now.
- ▶ 15:31 Anish Acharya Ben had a great, um, talking point to this at, I think he was at FII Riyadh last year, and he said something to the effect of, because these models, like we discussed earlier, are cultural infrastructure, you don't want to be colonized in… 2 times in the scene
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 10:18 Chris Power And I think the mission building here from how many Americans want to work on these hard problems from leaders like Catherine and Mark and Ben and D you from like really sending that message out has taken this from kind of really only 10…
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 0:31 J.D. Vance Thanks to, uh, to everybody for having me today, in particular Ben and Mark, and I just got to say hello to Ben, um, and Catherine backstage, but I know, I know apparently Mark has the flu right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:03 J.D. Vance And this is why I'm such huge fans of yours, of Ben's and Mark's and of the entire endeavor.
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 33:56 unnamed speaker And that's where you want to get, in my opinion, and the way you do that to, um, to quote Ben Horowitz, you know, culture is what you do, it's not what you say.
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 29:48 Anish Acharya Yeah, I mean, it's, it's certainly gonna be less expensive than Uber to go win the market, but yes, I mean, as Ben said many times, you have to both make a product people want, and then you have to go take the market, get from zero market…
America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 20:23 Marc Andreessen Uh, I, I understand the, the, the thing on the inside is also amazing, and so, um, you know, we clearly can do that, uh, uh, you know, at least in Vegas, um, uh, where Ben lives now, um, you know, I, in London, I think they just gave up on…
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:11:30 Marc Andreessen We are, we, we, you know, you and I both, and Ben and a lot of other partners have a lot of experience doing things that, 2 times in the scene
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 3:22 Adam Neumann I was like, ok, I got that, and that taught me a lot, and actually made me understand Mark and Ben and Venture Capital more.
- ▶ 29:59 David Ulevitch Um, Mark, you know, we, we came out, Ben had a big blog post about how we've moved our headquarters to the cloud.
- ▶ 44:27 Adam Neumann One of the biggest words that Mark and Ben used, as I said before, was alignment.
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 56:51 Marc Andreessen And then, and then basically what, what Ben and I decided with our, you know, with our, with our colleagues at the firm basically is like, look, the whole, the firm is built to live in the future.
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 9:38 Diogo Mónica If crypto did have a public ledger, that would also mean that you could see every single transaction, and you could see me sending money to Ben Horowitz over there.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 3:54 Marc Andreessen Sort of what happens to culture because culture, you know, Ben, Ben, uh, just, you know, wrote this book about culture being kind of the foundation of the behavior.
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 24:51 Scott Cooper You know, Ron Conway being a very famous one, and even, you know, Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz before they started the firm here were doing that on their own.
How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 6:28 Scott Cooper Uh, and, uh, you know, Ben Horowitz and I spent a bunch of time raising this, this very large round.
a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- ▶ 47:15 Brian Koppelman Ben is not able to make him watch something produced by Nas? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:41 Brian Koppelman Do you remember when the four of us first, do you remember when the four of us first met, how funny it seemed to us when me, you, Ben, and David, we were sitting there 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 27:15 Sonal Chokshi What Ben always says is this line that you control your own destiny.
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 33:15 Sonal Chokshi And actually it was a conversation with Ben that actually prompted this insight in me.
a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- ▶ 3:33 Martin Casado So Michelle, I actually have a lot of things in common, but one thing is we both had Ben Horowitz on our board. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Sonal Chokshi This goes down to the advice that Mark and Ben always give to everybody. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications
- ▶ 17:50 Margit Wennmachers I think Ben, I forget who, who, where this quote originated, but like, when you eat shit, don't nibble. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
- ▶ 3:36 Margit Wennmachers As Ben will say, no one will read your blog post more carefully and sometimes more critically.
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 15:57 Alex Rampell Ben Horowitz made a comment a couple days ago, like, there's no, like, local search engine just for the Wyoming market.
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security?
- ▶ 2:45 Ted Ullyot He needs new introduction here at Andreessen Horowitz, the firm he co-founded in 2009 with, uh, with Ben Horowitz. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 49:16 Fred Ehrsam It almost feels like Ben Horowitz told this story to Coinbase, uh, one time where he talked about how in the early days of Netscape, they had somebody asked them to come build an, an online virtual shopping mall.
a16z Podcast | Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
- ▶ 1:11 Scott Cooper Ben Horvitz was on my board at the time. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 19:26 Sonal Chokshi So it's, I guess, you know, to wrap up one last question I have is, you know, Ben wrote a, a really popular blog post a couple of years ago about the notion of a wartime versus the peacetime CEO.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 12:55 Marc Andreessen Our, our partner Ben Horowitz now argues the opposite side of this, having seen a lot of companies, but she argues 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:51 Balaji Srinivasan Why did you and Ben then decide to start a VC fund rather than doing another startup?
- ▶ 29:18 Marc Andreessen And then between Ben and I, we also helped probably a hundred friends of ours over the course of
- ▶ 52:04 Balaji Srinivasan So, I've, I've thought about this a lot, and I've discussed this with, ah, with Mark and Ben a lot.
a16z Podcast | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
- ▶ 14:54 Shannon Schiltz And it was at the end when we sold to HP, everyone that went over in that cell would still to this day probably walk off a cliff for Ben. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Shannon Schiltz Um, and if you've read Ben's book or if you've read some of Ben's blogs, um, or if you've heard our compensation thing, I was laid off on the second layoff.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 11:10 Marc Andreessen Uh, one, and this is the big one that we talk about a lot, and Ben talks about in particular a lot, which is this concept of courage.
- ▶ 15:33 Marc Andreessen When Ben and I were raising our, we were raising our, we actually went and pitched, uh, one of our early investors, Jeff Bezos, and he actually asked us, do you guys really want to go back to kindergarten?
- ▶ 19:13 unnamed speaker Political correctness, uh, in Silicon Valley, you know, Ben actually wrote in his book about a pretty interesting exchange between you and him via email, uh, when he disagreed with you and you told him, you know, you're just very, very… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 35:21 Michael Copeland Um, Ben and Mark invested in Nysera before Andreessen Hortz was even formed, I guess. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
- ▶ 33:10 Andy Walsh I think, you know, I think Ben today, Horowitz, when he's talking about the sort of having that interview with those, those, those startups and sort of looking the individual in the eye across the table, that's a big part still of what we…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 10:39 Peter Levine Ben, of course, knew folks there, and so we kind of look at, it's always been a matter of finding, you know, a couple of people inside a university, and then, and then, you know, building on that relationship.
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 28:14 Marc Andreessen And Ben and I went, what?
a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- ▶ 10:28 Tren Griffin The A-X-C case, you know, you've got, uh, Ben and Mark, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 21:03 Benedict Evans Well, so this is, I mean, this is the point Ben Horowitz has made.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 3:20 Chris Schroeder But they are instantly seeing the best practices and the best writings of people like Anna and people like Brad and people like Ben Horowitz, and, and they have an ability to access and engage and ask questions and, and, uh, improvise on…
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 17:58 Jeff Jordan Ben Horowitz has written a blog that I really like about how every, in these hyper growth companies, the job requirements change so fundamentally so quickly that basically everyone in the organization has to almost reapply for their job…
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 0:09 unnamed speaker Um, people around here like books like this because it looks a little bit like Ben Horowitz's book.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 1:03 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, uh, my partner Ben and I basically, you know, thought about five years ago we started this firm
- ▶ 40:21 Marc Andreessen Second is, ah, Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, I can't recommend too highly. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 15:45 Scott Cooper What about, Danny, um, you know, you've, you've probably seen this, unfortunately, but how do you, how do you have the conversation with employees, so I can remember very clearly when we were at LoudCloud, and Ben, I think, talked about… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 17:44 Ramana Jonnala So, to quote Ben, um, you know, Ben Horowitz's blog, right?
a16z Podcast | When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
- ▶ 7:15 Steven Sinofsky Many of them were members of the Opsware team, and of course, Mark and Ben created the company.
Going to Market When No Market Exists
- ▶ 4:37 Martin Casado So Ben Horowitz was on my board.
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 1:58 Margit Wennmachers But I also did know how to do it, and when Ben and Mark first, when I first met them,
- ▶ 3:51 Margit Wennmachers I think people's expectation was like, we'll be seed investors because Mark and Ben had done that on their own. 2 times in the scene
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 2:05 unnamed speaker Um, Ben Horowitz, uh, Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz was my first good manager, I like to say, at Netscape. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 unnamed speaker Uh, Ben and Mark remind me of this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:17 unnamed speaker Um, so, uh, I'll credit Ben because a lot of this thinking comes straight from Ben Horowitz.
Finance as Strategy: When and How Startups Should Build a Finance Function
- ▶ 2:36 Caroline Moon So Ben Horowitz has used an analogy in the past where he's likened HR to QA. 3 times in the scene
Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
- ▶ 5:07 Jorge Conde Ben Horowitz wrote this incredibly insightful book about the trials and the tribulations of innovation and entrepreneurship and sales. 2 times in the scene
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 14:15 Frank Chen This will be like one of those things Ben explained about how the past sucked.
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 27:53 Marc Andreessen And Ben and I went, what?