Ben Horowitz: "Jeff Bezos should be more like Genghis Khan”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about company culture (2:15), the Amazon example (7:), what’s wrong with new Uber (9:45), Uber’s old culture (12:15), Silicon Valley’s moment (15:55), how culture can be a company-killer (20:00), on whether capitalism is changing (25:15), why there aren’t more outsiders in venture capital (31:15), seeing what you don’t have (37:1), how lack of diversity creates product problems (39:55), and seeing culture early (43:05).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.7	If you think Facebook, YouTube, whatever, I mean, these are kind of, if you're talking about empires and history, these are empires.
0:13.1	Yes, yes.
0:13.8	And thank God for business in that sense, because then otherwise, right, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page would be leading armies.
0:23.0	And then that would be really rough you know Bill Gates all these guys hello and welcome to Danny in
0:31.1	the Valley thank you for tuning in I am on vacation this week in Hawaii.
0:38.5	Aloha. I'm actually recording this intro from the kitchen of our Airbnb in Oahu.
0:43.5	Everybody's asleep.
0:44.5	And here I am working like a sad sack.
0:48.4	But you know, once the season starts, it doesn't stop.
0:51.6	So on we go.
0:53.2	And I'm very excited to bring you this week's guests. Yes,
0:57.1	there are two. So there'll be two episodes. The first, this episode, I sit down with Ben Horowitz.
1:06.0	And he is the co-founder of Andresen Horowitz, the big Silicon Valley venture capital firm behind a whole
1:12.2	bunch of companies, you'll know, Instagram, Slack, Twitter. And I sat down with Horowitz in San
1:18.2	Francisco just before I jet it off to talk about a whole bunch of stuff, company culture,
1:24.2	why they skipped on investing in Uber, his new book called What You Do Is Who You Are.
1:31.2	At the moment that Silicon Valley now finds itself in, assailed by governments and the public, round the world.
1:41.3	He has a lot of really interesting insights.
1:43.1	The book that he's just written
1:45.0	takes experiences from everybody from Genghis Khan to prison inmates and a whole lot of other
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