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Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
- ▶ 0:50 unnamed speaker But let's talk about, you know, you have this book where you talked about, you know, how hard it is to be a CEO and everything that you went through at LoudCloud and Opsware.
- ▶ 4:51 unnamed speaker If you were, I mean, loud clouds around today, you're the CEO. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 8:20 Ali Ghodsi You have to do that for sales where, you know, they were super helpful because they had done it with Loud Cloud and Opsware.
- ▶ 49:43 Ali Ghodsi Um, but I'm just thinking back, I was CEO, Loud Cloud, Opsware, and, you know, uh, just the cards I were given, that, that company wasn't the company you have, and when I look back, how often do you in, in life get a chance to even have a… 2 times in the scene
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 20:34 Ben Horowitz So, so like there was kind of like Netscape and loud cloud. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 1:41 unnamed speaker Ben also sits on the board of Okta, Databricks, and more, and he's scaled up several organizations in his past, including LoudCloud that went public in 2001.
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen We were in the hard things book, because we were both at LoudCloud, and, uh, we've been here at Andreessen Horwitz. 2 times in the scene
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.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 5:30 Ken Kocienda And, and interestingly, our cloud, our cloud, interestingly for, uh, for where I am here, Andreessen Horowitz, we, we hosted our cloud services at LoudCloud.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 2:27 Tyler Cowen You two do loud cloud together.
- ▶ 4:54 Ben Horowitz And then, in our own experiences as technical founders, we knew why that was true, because, you know, well, if you just took, you know, like, nobody would have ever been able to fix LoudCloud other than us.
a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- ▶ 0:52 Michael Ovitz I met Ben in 1999 when he and Mark asked me to go on the board of Loud Cloud, and I told a lot of stories about the entertainment business and about the film.
- ▶ 17:10 Michael Ovitz I remember when we were at Loud Cloud when there were 400 plus employees and they had the
a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- ▶ 4:19 Stephen Levy But after the book, you kept disrupting with the Upsware and now the venture capital world.
a16z Podcast | Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤ CFO
- ▶ 17:06 Scott Cooper Going back to our LoudCloud days, right, like, you know, we had this concept of unit economics where, you know, like, a data center had to be able to actually generate profitability, and the model worked well on paper, but when we actually…
a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- ▶ 4:06 Ben Horowitz The challenge of a loud cloud pivot was we had built this company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 Ben Horowitz Loud cloud software.
- ▶ 20:16 Sonal Chokshi This is where I think it's really interesting because with a very early technology like Lightfield, just like with Opsware, the days of CloudCloud, 10 years too early with cloud computing, you can go any infinite number of direction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 Jason Rosenthal And the other, the other thing was that, that in some ways was harder decision around this pivot than the loud cloud opt for one was, was it wasn't like the consumer business was completely whiffing and, and failing and, and, you know,…
- ▶ 29:55 Sonal Chokshi It kind of actually ties together all the different elements of your career from LoudCloud to Opsware to Ning to Litro, where you're at.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 29:14 Marc Andreessen And then we raised money from Benchmark in, in, in 99 for LoudCloud, and that went really well.
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 12:43 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, my, my particular thing I remember very vividly is, you know, the crate taking Loud Cloud Public in March of 2001, um, which... 2 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…
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
- ▶ 9:34 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, when we were, you know, particularly, and this wasn't as a harsh a lesson at Netscape, but at a, at Opsware and LoudCloud, it was, like, incredibly difficult for us.
a16z Podcast | Protecting Your Company from Itself: Why You Need HR
- ▶ 9:15 Shannon Callahan Yeah, so I, I think it's, you know, I don't even think that you, I think it, it doesn't matter, um, you know, male, female, I think it really, one of the things, and I think we went through this at Opsware and, and LoudCloud, there was a…
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 4:02 unnamed speaker Um, after, ah, respond.com, which was the name of this company, I reconnected with Mark and Ben, who at the time were starting LoudCloud. 3 times in the scene
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 42:07 Ben Horowitz Uh, so when I built, um, you know, when I built my company, uh, Loud Cloud, which started out as the kind of, uh, an original, uh, 1999, uh, cloud computing company, uh, and then I had to transform it into Opsware because it was too early… 2 times in the scene