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Ben Horowitz

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The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And then that may like kind of force you to build a company.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And those are the things that work the best that we've seen are solutions.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

are these big things.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I mean, it's really hard to, and even like Elon Musk didn't start his career trying to build Tesla, right?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like he was solving a much smaller problem.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And, you know, that's generally how you build up to that.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I think trying to swallow the earth from the beginning with no experience doesn't usually work.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

It's good for your pitch deck, but it's not good for your company.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

A little bit more mundane than satellites.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Yeah, Yellow Pages and then PayPal and then, you know, Tesla and SpaceX.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I think it's, I think thinking of it like how big a thing am I going to do is the wrong way to think about it.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

You have to start with like, what problem can I solve?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And then you solve... If you can solve that problem, that's where to start.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, you have to size it to you.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Not everybody is the same.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, different people have different capabilities.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

You become kind of your full, like, most effective self at a different age.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, some people are really good when they're... By the way, like, Zuck is way different now than he was when he was 20 years old.