Horowitz: Building a small boutique company takes as much effort as a giant
Ben Horowitz · How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next · Apr 29, 2025 · at 12:49
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, explains the core lesson from operating startups that drove him and Marc Andreessen to build a large-scale VC firm rather than a boutique fund.
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“So the thing that Mark and I knew from like our experience in starting companies was It is just as hard to start a small boutique thing that means nothing in the world and build it as it is to build the world-dominating monster. Like it's no more amount of work to do the latter.”
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