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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.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 38:22 Ben Horowitz Um, the things that we had to talk about when we were building Netscape or, or, or Opsware, like, it's, it's amazing.
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
- ▶ 1:12 Ben Horowitz We had, uh, sold, um, Opsware to HP and, uh, kind of had been out of it for a little while.
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 2:13 unnamed speaker Mark Craney was Ben's former head of sales at Opsware, while Ron Caprisco is Databricks current CRO.
- ▶ 31:05 Ben Horowitz There are certain things that you believe in as a company, um, that you've kind of drilled into everybody, and if you bring in an executive who doesn't want to do it, and you don't make them assimilate, then, you know, you basically…
How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
- ▶ 0:38 Scott Cooper LoudCloud Opsware, if you include the HP acquisition.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 6:03 Ben Horowitz Yes, who founded the talent agency CAA, was a board member of ours at Opsware, and you know, he always thought about talent in amazing detail, and like, in incredibly specific, and one of his biggest concepts about it was, it was a…
a16z Podcast | On Mentors and Mentees
- ▶ 16:28 Ken Coleman Ben had started Opsware before I started the company, and I used to go meet with Ben and Mark regularly.
a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- ▶ 7:06 Ben Horowitz And off of that, we started this product project called Oxide, uh, which was basically take the opsware out of loud cloud, take the software out of the cloud computing business, the software that ran it and like make it its own product.
- ▶ 9:51 Sonal Chokshi How'd you know that Opsware was where it would be at? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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 | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
- ▶ 0:40 Sonal Chokshi Shannon also has a lot of experience as a former HR executive because she used to work at Opsware.
- ▶ 14:50 Shannon Schiltz And this was, you know, at Opsware we went through, I think three reductions.
a16z Podcast | Compensation Isn’t About Paying the Most, It’s About Being Consistent
- ▶ 12:53 Shannon Schiltz Um, you know, back when I was running HR at Opsware, I don't think our employees talked a lot to each other about what they were making.
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…
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.
Product Marketing for New Products
- ▶ 5:06 Sharon Chang When I was in product marketing at Opsware, I worked really closely with individual salespeople as well as sales management to make sure we had all the resources that they need, as well as go on and hear directly from customers and get…
- ▶ 6:43 Sharon Chang So I'm going to give you an Opsware example that, uh, we lived 2 times in the scene
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 7:27 unnamed speaker This was Opsware. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 50:00 Ben Horowitz And it's hard, it's hard to even, because a lot of it is a feeling, like, um, but, you know, there are times, like, you know, we had a time at, uh, Opsware where all of the customer, we had this huge set of requirements from customers, um,…