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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, a book about startups, and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture. Early life and education Horowitz was born Benjamin Abraham Horowitz in London, England and raised in Berkeley, California, the son of Elissa Krauthamer and conservative writer and policy advocate David Horowitz. Horowitz's great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who arrived in the U.S. in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Horowitz earned a BA in Computer Science from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1988 and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990. Career Horowitz began his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics in 1990. In 1995, Horowitz joined Marc Andreessen at Netscape as a product manager. From 1997 to 1998, Horowitz was vice president for the Directory and Security Product Line at Netscape. After Netscape was acquired by AOL in 1998, Horowitz served as Vice President of AOL's eCommerce Division. In September 1999, Horowitz cofounded Loudcloud with Andreessen, Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee. Loudcloud offered infrastructure and application hosting services to enterprise and Internet customers such as Ford Motor Company, Nike, Inc., Gannett Company, News Corporation, the United States Army and other large organizations. Horowitz took Loudcloud public on March 9, 2001. In June 2002, Horowitz began a transformation of Loudcloud into Opsware, an enterprise software company. He took the first step by selling Loudcloud's core managed services business to Electronic Data Systems for $63.5 million in cash. This transaction transferred 100% of Loudcloud's revenue to EDS while the company was publicly traded on NASDAQ. Beginning with EDS as its first enterprise software customer, Horowitz grew Opsware to hundreds of enterprise customers, over $100 million in annual revenue, and 550 employees. In July 2007, Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash. Horowitz was Loudcloud's and Opsware's President and Chief Executive Officer for the entire history of the company. Along the way, shares of Opsware IPO'ed at $6, sank to $0.35 per share at its nadir and traded at $14.25 a share at the time of its sale to HP. Following the sale of Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, Horowitz then spent one year at Hewlett-Packard as Vice President and General Manager in HP Software with responsibility for 3,000 employees and $2.8 billion in annual revenue. Andreessen Horowitz On July 6, 2009, Horowitz and Andreessen launched Andreessen Horowitz, to invest in and advise both early-stage startups and more established growth companies in high technology. Andreessen Horowitz began with an initial capitalization of $300 million and within three years had $2.7 billion under management across three funds. Personal life Horowitz lives in Atherton, California with his wife, Felicia Wiley Horowitz. They married in 1988 and have three children. References External links Ben's Blog. Discover the Ben Horowitz popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ben Horowitz books.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things Summary
Instant-SummaryThe Hard Thing About Hard Things: A Complete Summary The Hard Things About Hard Things is a bestselling novel written by Ben Horowitz. Besides being a novel, The Hard Things Abo...
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Medium for Murder
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonEven in the world of murder, things are not always as they seem...When Ben Anderson first came to stay at Buckleigh Combe in North Devon he found more than a few obstacles to overc...
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Outbreak
Chris RyanThirteenyearold Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan tha...
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The Murders at Foxglove Close
Rose TempleIf you enjoyed Midsomer Murders, you will love Rose Temple's Neighbourhood Watch series! Perfect for fans of Betty Rowlands, Faith Martin and Helen Cox.The sleepy village of Little...
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Work Remotely
Anastasia Tohmé & Martin WörnerRemote working makes us happier, more productive and more profitable, but it can bring its own set of challenges. How do we manage our worklife balance; communicate and collaborate...
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The Dealmaker
Guy HandsAn inside account of the multibillion pound world of private equity and a masterclass on the art of dealmaking.The Dealmaker is a frank and honest account of how a severely dyslexi...
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Trust No One
Anthony MosawiMy name is Sara Eden, and this is all I can remember . . . There are government agents pursuing me. They think I know something they want. They will never stop. I could be a dange...
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The Shroud
Ian WilsonTwo decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brandnew historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary pho...
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Dead on Cue
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonA deadly role becomes murder in the theatre...When writer Ben Anderson goes to Downshead Repertory Theatre company to see the rehearsals for his first play, he is not prepared for ...
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High Tide for Hanging
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonAt sea, the danger can't be escaped...Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists sin...
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Disguise for a Dead Gentleman
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonA school reunion goes horribly wrong...A superb classic crime novel from a master of the genre.'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists since the l...
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A Joosr Guide to... The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
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The Hard Thing About The Hard Things
Turbo-LearningA Comprehensive Book Review of The Hard Thing About The Hard Things The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a bestselling novel written by Ben Horowitz. Besides being a novel, The Har...
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Death on the Doorstep
Rose TempleIf you enjoyed Midsomer Murders, you will love Rose Temple's Neighbourhood Watch series!The sleepy village of Little Cote was meant to be a quieter pace of life for exMet PC Jemima...
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Battleground
Chris RyanYou wake up in a dark room with no idea where you are. You are gagged and forced into a waiting truck. You have done nothing wrong. What would you do? Fourteenyearold Ben travels t...
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A Fatal Move
Rose TempleIf you enjoyed Midsomer Murders, you will love Rose Temple's Neighbourhood Watch series!The sleepy village of Little Cote was meant to be a quieter pace of life for exMet PC Jemima...
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And Murder Came Too
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonIt's murder in a sleepy French fishing village . . .Crime writer Ben Anderson was hoping for a peaceful honeymoon sailing in Europe. He's solved four murders in the last three year...
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High Output Management
Andrew S. GroveIn this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook ...
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Flash Flood
Chris RyanBen's on a trip to London to meet his mum. But an accident at the Thames Barrier, combined with a tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm and suddenly his trip turns into some...
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Betrayal
Stewart Binns'Brilliant. An explosive thriller with true authenticity' Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy January, 1981. They're undercover in Belfast.Determined to put an end to a w...
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House of War
Scott MarianiThe edgeofyourseat thriller from the #1 bestseller.‘A gripping tale that will have you turning the pages well into the night’ MARK DAWSONA DEADLY TERROR PLOT. A RACE AGAINST THE CL...
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The Big Zero
Kris Timmermans, Chris Roark & Rodrigo AbdallaDo you want to achieve startup speed at enterprise scale? Growth. It's what every company strives for. But it's become more and more elusive as companies struggle to hit their proj...
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App
George BerkowskiTHE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APPBASED BUSINESS 'A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business' Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO King Digital (maker of Candy...