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Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) - Nailing the Hard Things

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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The Importance of a Technical Founder CEO

The Silicon Valley way of venture capital is to replace it the technical founder with a professional CEO so like are we just like focus on building like mediocre companies here, he says. A16Z was founded by Driesin Horowitz and Ben March in 2009 for five years after they started their VC firm. They wanted to build "the professional CEO network for the inventor CEO" The company now has more than 100 people at its helm including eight investing partners.

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