Ben Horowitz
11 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Martin Casado · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Mar 19, 2019 positive
Feb 20, 2020 positive
Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020 positive
Feb 20, 2020 positive
Feb 20, 2020
Horowitz: a16z employees who publicly trash startups on Twitter are fired
“One of the things I tell everybody at New Employee Orientation is if you get on Twitter, like some VCs, and start shitting all over somebody's company, you know, saying, oh, they'll never make any money, that's a dumb idea, I can't believe they called it bodeg…”
Feb 20, 2020
Horowitz: Founders who lie in pitches also lie to employees
“If you have a founder who's, like, say, telling you, like, some pretty aggressive, not true things in the pitch, then, you know, that's gonna be a tricky founder to work for, because it's very rare to have a person who, you know, lies only to investors and not…”
Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020
Horowitz: Culture is defined by who gets promoted, not posted values
“You can't say, okay, people are going to behave according to the values on the wall. They're going to go, oh, that person who just got promoted, lobbied the CEO for six months, took credit for her work, did those things. That's your culture. That's how that ge…”
Feb 20, 2020 positive
Feb 20, 2020
Horowitz: Evaluate startup culture by asking about specific behaviors, not general questions
“If you say, is this a good culture? Nobody's gonna say that the culture is bad if they're trying to hire you so you kind of have to get into specific behaviors that you might think are indicative, or that you have experience in a bad culture and just see if th…”