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Why did so few startup advisers and venture capitalists have any experience starting companies? As these thoughts rolled around in my head, I sent Ma… - Ben Horowitz
" "Why did so few startup advisers and venture capitalists have any experience starting companies? As these thoughts rolled around in my head, I sent Marc Andreessen an instant message: “We ought to start a venture capital firm. Our motto for general partners would be ‘some experience required’ as in some experience in founding and running companies is required to advise people who are founding and running companies.” To my surprise, he replied, “I was thinking the same thing.
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Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author.
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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In bad companies, when the economics disappear, so do the employees. In technology companies, when the employees disappear, the spiral begins: The company declines in value, the best employees leave, the company declines in value, the best employees leave. Spirals are extremely difficult to reverse.
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