Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz · Economics & Business
Co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (2009) after selling Opsware for $1.6 billion; author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things.
13 June 1966, London, United Kingdom
San Francisco, California, United States
Ben Horowitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (2009) after selling Opsware for $1.6 billion; author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things.
Of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, raised in Berkeley, Ben Horowitz ran product at Netscape, then co-founded Loudcloud/Opsware and sold it to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. In 2009 he and Marc Andreessen founded Andreessen Horowitz, the venture firm that backed Facebook, Airbnb, GitHub and Coinbase and rewrote how Sand Hill Road works — full-service, founder-first. His book The Hard Thing About Hard Things became the manual founders actually read.
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Co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (2009) after selling Opsware for $1.6 billion; author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Horowitz
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