Ben Horowitz
14 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2025 by Michael Ovitz · said 21 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Have 'Frightening' Startup Recall
“I remember sitting with Mark and Ben at a Y Combinator day and Every presentation, Mark would go, yep, 19 so-and-so saw that, been there, done that. And Ben would say, yep, that didn't work. And the frame of reference is, and the memory is frightening.”
Apr 8, 2025 bullish
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: AI founders will become even richer than internet pioneers
“And then AI is another layer on top of that in that, okay, now take that same product. And make it just more valuable thing. And so whoever invents that is whatever the internet company was plus, plus, plus. And so that's going to make them even richer.”
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Horowitz: Startups Now Need Around $1B in Revenue to IPO
“Companies used to go public routinely with fifty million dollars in revenue. That wasn't a good idea, but companies used to go public routinely with fifty million dollars in revenue.
That wasn't a good idea, but companies used to go public routinely with fifty…”
Feb 3, 2026
Horowitz: Elite AI Model Training Cannot Be Learned in Academia
“If you haven't been at like Google or Facebook or open AI or anthropic and like somebody gave you hundreds of millions of dollars to try and build a giant model and you weren't like one of the main people, then you probably don't know how to do it because you …”
Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Horowitz: Andreessen Horowitz was named to prove founders would not abandon fund
“The reason we named the firm after ourselves is when we try it, we raised money in 2009, which is right on the, you know, edge of the financial crisis. And the big objection from LPs was, well, like you guys are like really good entrepreneurs. You're just goin…”
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Horowitz: Systems designed to eliminate inequality merely concentrate dictatorial power
“And the problem is if you create a system that tries to correct that, it doesn't make things more fair. It just, Transfers all the power to the person running the system. And that's what happened with Stalin. That's what happened with Ceausescu. That's what ha…”
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026 bullish
Horowitz: AI is the greatest opportunity equalizer in human history
“So that's a big, it's an equalizer of the opportunity in a lot of ways that I don't think we've ever seen a bigger opportunity equalizer than AI in that every child can have like a super advanced, amazing tutor teacher. So like education, Great education is ac…”
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026 negative