PandoMonthly Presents: A Fireside Chat with Ben Horowitz

Hold on to your bling.
Our guest for this month's PandoMonthly San Francisco is one of the top investors in the business, Ben Horowitz. Like most people who grace our stage, Ben needs little introduction, but I’ll give one anyway. He was a key executive at Netscape: One of the most iconic Internet companies in the history of the Valley. He was frequently the calm, voice of reason for a brash, junk-food eating young Marc Andreessen. They had their fights, but the two also created a life-long friendship… Show more and partnership that has made people who believed in them filthy, stinking rich.
While Netscape was a rocketship, their second company Opsware was anything but. No offense to Marc, but the biggest reason it managed to eventually sell to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion was the steady management hand of Ben. While Marc was the cover boy for both companies, Ben has recently developed a cult following for his profanity, his rap-lyric laced blog posts, and quotes like the one in our story about venture scouts where he called other investors "the cry babies of Silicon Valley."

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