Jack Altman
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4,609 appearances
201 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard yesterday
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Ben Horowitz didn't feel like he knew what he was doing as CEO until about four years in.
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His company went public when it was eighteen months old.
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He says that feeling is more normal than most founders admit.
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Horowitz has spent more than 15 years at Andreessen Horowitz, backing and coaching founder CEOs.
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The pattern he sees in the ones who fail isn't a lack of intelligence.
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It's hesitation.
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They see a problem.
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A head of sales who isn't working, a decision that needs to be made.
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And they wait.
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Brian Halligan calls that decision debt.
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Horowitz says it's the worst kind, because it paralyzes everything downstream.
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This conversation covers where founder mode works and where it's being taken too far.
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Why the VP of sales is the hire that goes wrong more than any other, and what Zuckerberg, Jensen, and Elon actually have in common.
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