Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, investor and author. In 1999 he co-founded the cloud services company Loudcloud with Marc Andreessen and others and served as its CEO; the company later became the software firm Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007.

In 2009 he and Andreessen co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He wrote The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014), a book about the challenges of running a startup.

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