Ben Horowitz

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15,816 appearances 55 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard yesterday

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

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Well, the story was definitely different on the other side, but.

Yeah, well, okay, let me just tell you what I actually remember and then what I kind of remember.

So I remember you came in for the pitch, and I think it was just you, which is, by the way, unusual.

So normally people, particularly in those days, very rare that an entrepreneur would come in with no team members on a deal that size.

That was a big deal, by the way.

That was a high-priced deal.

Now it's like, oh, fuck it, $1.75.

Right?

Yeah, the pitch was super impressive.

And then the other thing I recall pretty closely was Travis had definitely read some of my blogs.

I felt like, oh, we can win this.

This is a deal.

And we had the discussion, and it was clear, like, no, we want to do the deal.

And at the time, I was like, I should really do this one, but I wasn't the consumer guy.

And then I got a lot of board seats.

I think it was like 16 board seats.

I was like, ah.

And so I gave it to Mark and John O'Farrell to do.

And then all I remember, so I remember something different at this point, but I got it all from them, so I wasn't there.

There was something about...

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