Within seven months of founding, we’d already booked $10 mi… - Ben Horowitz

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Within seven months of founding, we’d already booked $10 million in contracts. Loudcloud was taking off, but we were in a race against time and the competition. This meant hiring the best people and fielding the broadest cloud service, and that meant spending money — lots of it.

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Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author.

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