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Ben Horowitz

engineer, businessperson, entrepreneur, opinion journalist

1966

Benjamin Abraham Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, a book about startups, and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture.

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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Ben Horowitz

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

Ben Horowitz

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Ben Horowitz

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Ben Horowitz

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

Ben Horowitz

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

Ben Horowitz