Ben Horowitz
23 statements across 5 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
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May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Andreessen, Horowitz, Ravikant, Armstrong, and Ehrsam are daily intellectual sparring partners
“Mark and I have kept up a high bandwidth conversation for almost a decade now. Mark and Ben for sure. Neville Rovi-Kant you know, who's a very good friend of mine. And Armstrong, Fred Urson. These are really smart guys who like basically folks who I get a boun…”
Jul 8, 2024
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…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Dec 1, 2025
Horowitz: Integrity Only Exists When Tested Against Severe Personal Costs
“Integrity only matters when it's tested. Everybody has integrity. Everybody's honest until it's tested. And then when it's tested, very few people are, right? Like when it costs you money, when it costs you a deal, when it costs you your marriage, are you hone…”
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Horowitz: Top Founders Like Zuckerberg and Musk Understand People Exceptionally Well
“The ones who truly
Don't understand people are, don't actually turn out to be good CEOs. Like they don't get to that level. Like you can, you know, you can make fun of Larry Page or Elon or Zuck or so forth, but they are actually very smart about people.”
Dec 1, 2025 positive
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…”
Dec 1, 2025 negative
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Dec 1, 2025 positive
Horowitz: Daily executive standups permanently fix broken company communication
“As you grow, like communication becomes your biggest challenge. And so it's just a way to go like, okay, I'm gonna Manually unscalably fixed communication in this organization right now. And the amazing thing about it is does tend to be very long lasting where…”
Dec 1, 2025
Horowitz: Expecting life to be fair wrecks young people
“I see young people wreck themselves so much because they have an expectation that something about life is going to be fair. Like nothing about life is fair. It's not fair where you're born. It's not fair. What race you are. It's not fair. Like what your parent…”
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Horowitz: Nothing at a16z Compares to the Trauma of Running Loudcloud
“The first company I founded, Lovecloud, which then became Opsware, was so difficult that I never, I like in life since then, like we like we've had difficulties building the firm, whatever, but like they never got like a rise out of me that could compare to, y…”
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Horowitz: Paid in Full Foundation pays hip-hop pioneers $100K annual pensions
“So I have this charity that I created with my wife called the Paid in Full Foundation which basically, you know, is kind of this idea on a whim, but we give pensions to the old hip-hop guys. So, you know, they got a 100,000 dollars a year, and then we have thi…”
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Horowitz: a16z Hosted CEO Barbecues With Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Kanye
“I used to have this event, which I should probably bring back, but I ran out of room in my backyard called the CEO barbecue, where we would bring all the CEOs for the portfolio. And then we would just like put like very famous people around them. So we had lik…”
Dec 1, 2025
Horowitz: Uncorrected sub-standard behavior creates a new, lower organizational standard
“Well, if you if you see something below standard and you don't correct it, you set a new standard. And that's very true. And that's why they have to be specific because if they're not specific, you can't enforce it.”
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
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…”
Dec 1, 2025
Horowitz: CTOs Must Influence the Whole Company, Not Intimidate Subordinates
“The CTO has got to marshal the resources of the whole company to get what he needs to get the job done. And if you go to like a junior person, you're like five levels below you and make her cry. You know, you're probably right, but like, you're never going to …”
Dec 1, 2025 neutral
Horowitz: Facebook Executives Attempted a Coup in 2007 to Force Yahoo Sale
“The Facebook traffic had flattened and
The current, the executive staff that he had at the time was trying to run a coup to force him to sell to Yahoo. So they were leaking all this stuff to Valleyrag at the time and Valleyrag was, you know, calling for Zuck t…”
Apr 9, 2026 positive
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…”