Horowitz: Expecting life to be fair wrecks young people
Ben Horowitz · 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA) · Dec 1, 2025 · at 1:01:51
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz shares the most formative life lesson he learned and how abandoning expectations of fairness enables resilience and success.
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“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 parents did. It's not fair. Like the job interviews aren't fair. Like nothing, the tests aren't fair. Nothing is fair in life. And so the way you succeed is you don't have that expectation. You just deal with it as it is.”
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