Ben Horowitz
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, blogger, and author.
He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder along with Marc Andreessen of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of Opsware, a business software firm that Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007.
Horowitz is the author of A book about startups, The Hard Thing About Difficult Things: Building a Company When There Are No Simple Answers.
Early life and education
Benjamin Abraham Horowitz was born in London, England, and raised in Berkeley, California, the uncle of Elissa Krauthamer and liberation advocate David Horowitz. Horowitz's great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who arrived in the United States in the mid-19th and early twentieth centuries.
Horowitz earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1988 and a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990.
Personal life
Horowitz and his partner, Felicia Wiley Horowitz, live in Atherton, California. They married in 1988 and had three children.
Career
Horowitz began his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics in 1990. Horowitz joined Netscape as a product manager in 1995. Horowitz served as vice president of Netscape's Directory and Security Product Line from 1997 to 1998. Horowitz served as Vice President of AOL's eCommerce Division after AOL acquired Netscape in 1998.
Horowitz cofounded Loudcloud with Andreessen, Tim Howes, and Sik Rhee in September 1999. Loudcloud provided infrastructure and application hosting to company and internet clients such as Ford Motor Company, Nike, Inc., Gannett Company, News Corporation, the United States Army, and other major companies. On March 9, 2001, Horowitz took Loudcloud for the public.
Horowitz initiated the conversion of Loudcloud into Opsware, an enterprise software company, in June 2002. He took the first action by selling Loudcloud's key managed services market to Electronic Data Systems for $63.5 million in cash. Loudcloud's earnings were credited 100% to EDS after the company was publicly traded on NASDAQ. Horowitz grew Opsware to hundreds of enterprise customers, over $100 million in annual income, and 550 workers, beginning with EDS as its first enterprise software client. Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007.
Horowitz was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Loudcloud and Opsware for the entire company's history. Opsware IPO'ed's shares fell to $0.35 per share at its nadir on its nadir and priced at $14.25 a share at the time of its auction to HP.
Horowitz spent one year at Hewlett-Packard as Vice President and General Manager of HP Software, with responsibility for 3,000 workers and $2.8 billion in annual revenue following the sale of Opsware to Hewlett-Packard.
Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz founded Andreessen Horowitz on July 6, 2009, to invest in and help early-stage startups and more established growth companies in high technology. Andreessen Horowitz started with a $300 million initial capitalization and managed three funds under control for three years.