Ben Horowitz
Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. On 6 shows, 94 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Horowitz co-founded and served as CEO of Opsware, leading it to a $1.6 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. In 2009, he co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz alongside Marc Andreessen and authored bestselling business books.
6shows
94appearances
945statements
153resolved
65supported
35contradicted
42%fully supported
424said about them ↓ Everything Ben Horowitz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Horowitz: Democracy will fail without proof-of-human identity infrastructure
“Proof of human is a piece of a very important puzzle where we have to upgrade the entire infrastructure or we're not going to be a democracy anymore. I mean, that, that'd just be my guess.”
Horowitz: Balaji Srinivasan temporarily quit a16z over NYT article crisis
“Inside the firm, it was such a big crisis that actually, I'm pretty sure Bology quit, because he thought we were dead, because the New York Times had just, like, ruined the whole firm with that article.”
Horowitz: Corporate boards pick risk-averse, uninteresting CEOs
“When it comes to picking the professional CEO, they're all about what's not wrong with him, not what's right with him, or what's right with her, and so you get these very vanilla characters who definitely could not go on Joe Rogan”
Horowitz: European startup culture suffers from negative societal values and regulation
“They have a, like a, definitely a worse regulatory environment and EU increasingly bad regulatory environment for entrepreneurship, but there, there's a cultural challenge where You know, succeeding, doing something larger than yourself, making the world a bet…”
Horowitz: Biden executive order required federal approval to sell GPUs
“The last Biden administration executive order said that you could not sell a GPU without federal government approval. Like, that was a real executive order, and that got reversed, but like, we were that close. To being basically out of the global chip game.”
Horowitz: Restricting AI math modeling will forfeit US AI lead to China
“If you ban the technology, which some people are calling for, ah, or ban or kind of infringe people's ability to do mathematics, which is something that a lot of people are calling for then I think we're definitely gonna lose the AI rise to China, which has, l…”
Horowitz: Copyright restrictions on training data will weaken US AI against China
“China absolutely doesn't respect copyrights, even, they don't respect just copying it let alone building a statistical model, and we're gonna have kind of a weaker AI if we can't train on all the data, can't train on the complete data.”
Horowitz: AI Will Eventually Solve Virtually Every Major Human Problem
“There's not a problem that we can think of that you can't, that you won't be able to solve with AI. So like almost every problem in the world and you know, from cancer to transpiration, transportation to massive fraud in the U S you just name a problem in the …”
Horowitz: a16z Has Higher IQ Concentration Than Any Operating Company
“We just have a higher concentration of talent here than that's probably possible in a company in terms of just Sheer IQ.”
Horowitz: a16z replaces venture partners who lose touch with deep tech
“Investing in technology you really have to be in deep in the tech to be good at it. And I think that it's very possible as, you know, people get older, you know, they get less into it sometimes. And so, you know, at that point we got to make a change.”
Horowitz: Memphis police lowered recruitment standards enough to hire criminals
“Because of the shortage many police departments have lowered their standards. So the kind of criticism of the police was, okay, you have, and it really, like, if you looked into it, There were some, like, psychos who joined the police force. They couldn't get …”
Horowitz: Post-Rampart LAPD recruited gang members who killed Notorious B.I.G.
“What happened in the LAPD with the Rampart scandal right after the Rodney King incident They had the same kind of thing. Everybody got fired, et cetera. They had trouble recruiting. They started recruiting people out of gangs and those gang members ended up, y…”
Horowitz: Reallocating police funds to social work has failed
“So you have to have, I'm not against social work, but you can't do it at the expense of crime, you know, law enforcement, and we saw that. I mean, like, we ran the experiment, it didn't work.”
Horowitz: Las Vegas police shootings dropped 75% after tech deployment
“Police shootings of suspects in Vegas dropped like 75% when we first put the cameras and the drones in place.”
Horowitz: Defunding police privatizes security for the rich
“It's defund the police for poor people. It's privatized the police for rich people.”
Horowitz: Declining to enforce laws punishes victims without fixing prisons
“You can't, you're not going to solve the prison problem by not enforcing the law. Like, that's just, you just make the, you punish the victims on behalf of the criminals at that point, which is, I think that's a very dangerous thing for a society to do.”
Horowitz: LAPD corruption and rogue officers protected Tupac Shakur's killers
“Well, in that case, the LAPD was corrupt, and the, well, there were literally criminals in the police force protecting the criminals who killed Tupac, and, you know, thankfully, we kind of reopened the cold case, and we caught the guy, but it's,”
Horowitz: Prosecutors and judges are funded to avoid convicting criminals
“There's a huge push to not criminal, to decriminalize crime, essentially, in this country. And, like, it's still going on, and it's, you know, there are still these, you know, prosecutors and judges that are funded basically for the purposes of not convicting …”
Horowitz: San Francisco's shoplifting policy enabled organized crime, not hungry residents
“In San Francisco, right, like, the whole political movement was, people are hungry, you can't arrest them for shoplifting and so forth, so as soon as we did that, what happened was massive gangs took everything out of the stores. They ended up, right, shutting…”
Horowitz: Las Vegas Police reopened the Tupac murder investigation at my request
“So at the end of the dinner, I say to the chief of police, Mike Gennaro, I'm like, Mike, you ought to reopen the Tupac case, and he goes, I'll talk to the sheriff. And the next day I called me, I said, what did the sheriff say? He said, if Ben wants us to open…”
Horowitz: 'It's Time to Build' sparked the Democratic Party's abundance movement
“Software is eating the world is probably more famous, but I'd say Time to Build is more influential in that People read software is eating the world, and then they didn't do anything. They were like, wow, that's very interesting, and then that was it. But with…”
Horowitz: Refusing to Sell Technology to the US Military Is Illogical
“I'll just say about the kind of anti, you know, we're not gonna sell stuff to the US military and so forth. It's like, well, so here are friends of ours who are risking their lives to protect us, and we're not going to make sure they have the best, safest equi…”
Horowitz: Founder claims of imminent AGI are just talent recruiting tactics
“I think all those claims tend to be like recruiting ideas as opposed to actual predictions.”
The other half of the tape: Ben Horowitz's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 387 times in 175 episodes across the shows. 37 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 44Marc Andreessen 36David George 21Martin Casado 15Lenny Rachitsky 15Anish Acharya 15Alex Bouaziz 14Scott Cooper 7
Statements about Ben Horowitz, by other people (37)
Kalanick: Uber's 2017 board battle would differ with Andreessen or Horowitz
“That wouldn't have gone that way if Ben or Mark was on the board.”
Bouaziz believes high-growth tech companies should hire engineers as CMOs
“But in his mind, most chief marketing officers are not good. The truth is I actually agree with him. And for a while I was looking for a CMO with this experience, that experience, and what I've realized is, like, the best CMOs I've encountered over the last fe…”
Blank: Ben Horowitz's wartime CEO analogy is flawed and inappropriate
“Business people who use that analogy. I'm not sure too many of them have been in the fight. If you lose in a wartime, it's measured and killed in action. And if you lose in business, it's maybe you lose your corner office. So I'm not sure that's the right anal…”
Acharya: Most Business Books Are Full of Shit
“Hard Things was the first honest business book. Okay, and I always say about business books, like the business model of business books is selling business books. It's not making you better. Most business books are full of shit, and Hard Things is the first one…”
Horowitz warned Ghodsi that selling Databricks early would cause lifelong regret
“Hey, you can do whatever you want. You can sell. You're going to make a lot of money and you'll be super successful in life. But you know, if you're like me, you're going to look back the rest of your life thinking, you know, I missed that one shot. That was t…”
Pricing is the single most important decision for enterprise startups
“Especially in enterprise, there is no single decision that you make that's more important or directly tied to your value than pricing.”
Wennmachers: When a company makes a mistake, apologize fully without nibbling
“When you eat shit, don't nibble. So if you, if you're going to own it, which if you actually screwed up, you should.”
Kupor: Pricing impacts startup valuation more than any other business decision
“I want you to be very careful because no single decision will impact the valuation of your company more than the decision you're about to make on pricing.”
Hire salespeople who beat quotas selling inferior products at tier-three companies
“Hire salespeople from the ones who had the shitty product. He's like, if you hire a salesperson from the people whose, the product was just being pulled by the market, they, you know, the fish were jumping in the boat, and you don't know if that person's a gre…”
a16z built partner brands so founders wouldn't only demand Marc Andreessen
“I do think we needed to even out the brand a little bit because like, otherwise any entrepreneur with leverage was going to go like, well, I want him to be on my board. Right. And that was just going to get success. It'll be worse with every other GP. So that …”
Ben Horowitz called Databricks his highest-upside portfolio company in 2015
“So I was like looking at Mongo or Square or some of those companies and he was like, yeah, this company called Databricks, it's way earlier stage than anything you're looking at, but it's got the most upside of any company in my whole portfolio.”
Houston: Companies fail when founders refuse to delegate or drift too far
“There's this like Ben Horowitz calls it the products, the product CEO paradox where companies, the first way that companies die is from founders not letting go. And so you need to learn to like scale yourself and like hand off your responsibilities and operate…”
Andreessen and Horowitz disclaim any financial stake in GOAT meme coin
“A-sixteen Z, Ben and I have nothing to do with it. We are not investors. We were not involved in creating it. We have no role in it. We own none of it. We have no economics in it. We are completely unrelated to it.”
Andreessen: Ben Horowitz and I had a three-hour dinner with Donald Trump
“Ben and I had dinner with the former president 10 days ago at Bedminster his golf club in New Jersey and had a three hour dinner.”
Andreessen: Nicira scrapped its OpenFlow tech immediately after a16z investment
“So we funded this here at NetWeQ's networking lab, and it was the OpenFlow. OpenFlow was the sort of protocol was the approach and Martine had, had, had been one of the main people doing that. And so they start in Asira, and we're all excited, because we're li…”
Ben Horowitz passed on TransferWise twice before investing
“And then Ben passed on the deal, I think twice, maybe? But finally corrected this ridiculous mistake, and now we are an investor in TransferWise, and very happily so.”
Kalanick: Uber held secret meetings with a16z during Lyft rivalry
“There was also this other thing that would happen, so this is like, 2000, I think this really started in 2014, 15, et cetera, is Emile and I would meet up with Mark and Ben at this, Super undercover restaurant.”
Andreessen wants to be remembered as an entrepreneur, not an investor
“Entrepreneur. I, and you know, Ben and I are lucky in that we've been able to, you know, A-sixteen Z itself has been an entrepreneurial project. And so yeah, I would, if I could choose, that would definitely be the one.”
Horowitz refused to distribute 'Extreme Ownership' to a16z founders
“I recommended to Ben when that book came out, I fell in love with it and I recommended to Ben. I said, we need to send this to all of our founders and like teach this. And he's like, Mark, you're out of your mind. Like our founders already have the problem whe…”
Rampell: Ben Horowitz checks if AI can do a job before hiring
“Ben is the CEO of injuries in Horowitz. Like he's asking that before we hire people here.”
Puri: Holding twice-daily meetings during startup crises eliminates excuses
“Cause if it is a big problem, then I'll just keep showing up and saying, okay, now what? Okay. Now what? And okay. And if you just do that for three days, The, like, all of the excuses get squeezed away is what I found. Like, all the excuses suddenly disappear…”
Ovitz: Andreessen Horowitz Is Building an Institution Designed to Outlive Its Founders
“And this is what Andreessen and Horowitz are doing. Ben and Mark are building an institution that's going to outlive them. And that's their goal. They don't want to be a boutique. They don't want to be small.”
Ben Horowitz: Losing Ron Conway's network costs more than losing any deal
“No matter what deal you're in, it is more costly to be out of Ron's network than it is to, you know, try to get, get one up. And because of that, he is ensured that Silicon Valley works.”
Shaan Puri: Breakthrough solutions are found only through brute-force execution
“In my experience, the thing that's actually come out of this philosophy of there are no silver bullets is that actually
There are silver bullets, but the only way you discover them is by just firing a shit ton of bullets that you think are lead.
And then you s…”
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20VC 174
the a16z Podcast 154
Lenny's Podcast 28
Invest Like the Best 21
My First Million 7
the MAD Podcast 3
2026 72 mentions in 23 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
- How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 97 mentions in 36 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How a16z Growth Invests · Invest Like The Best
- Michael Ovitz - Turning Potential Into Prominence · Invest Like The Best
- The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- 20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- JD Vance on the Future of America
- 28 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder
- Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
- Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
- Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 27 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- 20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- 20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- How Virtual Horses are Making Millions & A Potential 9-Figure Company | My First Million #181
- Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
- 20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 11 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Most Founders Do Not Structure Their Fundraise Correctly, The Pros Of Having An MBA As A Startup Founder & How To Manage The Psychology Of Being CEO and Overcome Self Doubt with Iman Abuzeid, Founder & CEO @ Incredible Health
- 20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- 20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- 20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- 20VC: TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen on The Future of Business and Personal Travel & Layoffs; How To Do Them The Right Way & Maintain Company Culture and Morale
- 20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 82 mentions in 37 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- a16z Podcast | For the Billions of Creatives Out There
- 20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
- a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
- a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- 20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 22 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- Finance as Strategy: When and How Startups Should Build a Finance Function
- 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- 20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- Going to Market When No Market Exists
- 20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Should Let Everyone Rip Apart Their Business Idea, How To Construct Frameworks for Success & Why You Should Not Always Test Your MVP with Afton Vechery, Founder & CEO @ Modern Fertility
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- 20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- 20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 11 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- 20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- 20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- 20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- 20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- 20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
- 20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- FF 009: How To Leverage Your Connections To Grow Your Business with Sarah Schupp, Founder & CEO @ University Parent
- 20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- 20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures
- 20 VC 083: 500 Startups Week: New Funds, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan with Marvin Liao, Partner @ 500 Startups
- 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ben's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 89 +2 | 835 | 41% 58/141 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 31 | 25% 1/4 | full record on Invest Like the Best → |
| LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 26 | 0% 0/1 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 24 | 100% 3/3 | full record on My First Million → |
| MADLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 17 | — | full record on the MAD Podcast → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 12 | 75% 3/4 | full record on 20VC → |