Co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z.
Ben serves on the board of Any scale, Caffeine, Databricks, Mayvenn, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta ($OKTA), Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, and UnitedMasters.
Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP.
He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line.
Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.
. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service.
Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. .
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. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service.
Ben Horowitz is a co founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz..
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He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are.
Ben Horowitz is a co founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz..
He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are.
He created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect the greatest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.