The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age When a16z announced its Machine Age fund, the partners didn't lead with a pitch about model breakthroughs or killer apps. They led with a startling fact:…
Ben Horowitz — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Ben Horowitz has appeared on 8 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including a16z Show, The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Ben said
“I don't want you chasing that fucking feeling [of saving the company from the brink] because that will cause you to take chances... There are chances that you have to take, and then there's chances you don't have to take.”
— Ben Horowitz (47:13)
Episode appearances
8 After nearly eight years building in stealth, Travis Kalanick is ready to talk. In this fireside conversation from a16z’s launch event, Ben Horowitz and host sit down with Kalanick to discuss why…
Jensen Huang's First Tweet, Travis Kalanick's $1.7B Return, and the Open-Weight War Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X was an open-weights manifesto signed by Microsoft, Meta, IBM, and…
Ben Horowitz opens with a historical claim that cuts through the noise: “The open source version of everything has been much safer. The internet and Linux were far safer than Windows.” This is his…
Travis Kalanick spent eight years building his next company in stealth — not because he wanted to, but because he had to. Coming out of Uber’s 2017, he was the subject of 150 negative articles a…
Adam Neumann’s childhood was defined by instability and a search for belonging. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he moved 13 times growing up in Israel, including a stint in Indiana.…
Rick Rubin’s conversation with the a16z team starts with a joke that turned into something serious. After seeing his own image become the unofficial mascot of "vibe coding"—a term for using AI to…
The Old Rules of Software No Longer Apply Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner at a16z, opened his conversation with general partner Alex Rampell at the FinTech Connect Conference with a…
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