Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) - Nailing the Hard Things

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz shares which entrepreneurial skills truly matter, and why learning to manage well may be the most critical skill of all. Horowitz, a founding partner of Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the value of learning inside a large company, some of the exciting technology frontiers ahead, and the purpose and philosophy of his firm, in conversation with Stanford Engineering Professor Tom Byers.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.4	Oh my goodness, Ben Horowitz. Have you ever heard of this guy? Have you read something by him?
0:26.2	Is he funny or what? So if you haven't, then go up on the web. You don't mind if they surf a little bit while we're. I mean, you worked at Netscape. You started this with the first browser.
0:38.6	Get on your browsers and devices and go up and read something by him.
0:43.6	Either during this or even later, and it will be hard to put down because as I was prepping for this, my goodness, you just ruined my Sunday.
0:51.8	I got word.
0:52.7	I had this opportunity to interview you.
0:54.9	And I said, well, I've been reading this stuff and assigning this stuff for a long time in my courses.
1:00.9	But I never really met me before.
1:03.5	Or if it's so, it's been passing.
1:05.3	So, wow.
1:06.8	You know, I'm going to really, I'm going to take a look at it.
1:10.1	And it is super informative and super interesting but also funny.
1:15.8	So how did this happen?
1:17.0	Where did this all come from?
1:18.7	Let's start with college.
1:20.6	College.
1:21.4	College.
1:22.9	You before that, where did you go up then?
1:26.1	Well, I grew up in the People's Republic of Berkeley.
1:28.8	I'd across the way there.
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