Ben Horowitz

speaker

15,697 appearances 54 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 4d ago

Ben Horowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 43 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The a16z Show · The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

in the Amazon jungle, which was all Americanized, bandstands and ice cream and all this stuff. matched

It actually worked for a while until he made people show up to things on time and then they were like, screw this, matched

cases are multiplying. matched

And there's no way, like if you're the biggest company, you can get to the biggest use cases, but there's so many use cases. matched

And all, as Martin was saying, very valuable use cases that it's just very hard to get to in a great way. matched

Well, I think the big thing is you hit on one of the big things, which is a lot of money goes in before they get to a product. matched

And that's just kind of the nature of it. matched

Now, that's true on big models too, but I would say... matched

That's a little more of a known path, whereas this has got a little more risk and a little more money than some of the other things that we've done. matched

And, you know, look, a lot of the chip founders are here from the past. matched

You know, like the guys who know how to make memory. matched

They're not young. matched

So it's, you know, that part is different, too. matched

But it's kind of exciting, you know. matched

Well, I think it's Raghu's point that if you're building something that has a very complicated supply chain, has to manufacture things, and is technically complicated... matched

That, you know, some experience helps. matched

And, you know, if you look at Elon or Travis Kalanick, their companies when they were young were software companies. matched

It wasn't until they got, like, a lot... Even those guys, the best guys, needed some experience in building companies, building technology and so forth to kind of graduate to the much more kind of complicated or... matched

I would say elaborate domains. matched

There are many more moving parts in these things. matched

Showing 961–980 of 15,697 · page 49 of 785