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$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)

Lenny's Podcast · 136.7K views · 2025-09-11 · 1:38:00

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Uploader description excerpt: Ben Horowitz is the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley’s largest and most influential venture capital firm, with over $46B in committed capital across multiple funds. He took Loudcloud public with just $2 million in revenue (dubbed “the IPO from hell”), sold it for $1.6 billion, and has backed companies from Facebook to Stripe to Airbnb to OpenAI to Databricks (now worth more than $100 billion). His management philosophy—forged through near-death experiences and refined through coaching hundreds of CEOs—contradicts most conventional startup wisdom.

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