1: “Remember, Ben, things are always darkest before they go completely black,” said Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to his business partner and then Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz.
“He was joking, but as we entered our first quarter as a public company, those words seemed prescient,” Ben writes in his wonderful book The Hard Thing About Hard Things about being a Wartime CEO. The year was 2001. It was … continue reading
1: Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to his business partner and then Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz:
Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?”
Ben: “What?”
Marc: “You only experience two emotions: Euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances both.”
The year was 2000. The dot-com implosion was happening.
Ben and Marc had raised almost $200 million to launch Loudcloud, a startup focused on network … continue reading
1: “Ben, think about how you might run the business if capital were free.”
That was the advice Andy Rachleff of Benchmark Capital gave Ben Horowitz, who was the CEO of Loudcloud, a startup focused on network security, scaling, and disaster recovery.
The year was 1999.
Ben and Loudcloud co-founder Marc Andreessen were coming off the spectacular sale of Netscape to AOL for $4.2 billion.
Benchmark invested $15 million … continue reading
1: The summer of 1995 was a dizzying time for the people working at Netscape.
In August of that year, the company went public.
“The Netscape initial public offering (IPO) was both spectacular and historic,” Ben Horowitz writes in The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers.
“The stock initially priced at $14 per share, but a last-minute decision doubled the … continue reading
1: For the past two weeks, we’ve been doing a deep dive into author Sahil Bloom‘s concept of “time wealth,” as detailed in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
We’ve explored how to see time and strategies to maximize the effectiveness of our time.
So far, we’ve looked at Warren Buffett’s Two Lists strategy, the Energy Calendar, … continue reading
