Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don’t have investments in. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
It helps to have founded and run a company if you’re going to help somebody run a company who is a founder. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
With communication technology in general, there’s a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world’s entire population using one communication technology, that’s a big deal. It’s beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it’s a fad have probably not been paying that much attention. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms. Ben Horowitz Read Quote
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’ Ben Horowitz Read Quote
