Ben Horowitz
Everything Ben personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"When we first got Opus 4.5, we were doing cybersecurity checks for the firm. So we had an agent basically set up a website for a pet store and then we took another agent and said tell us if we can exploit that web store... So Opus 4.5 wrote really buggy code. Great."
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"ElevenLabs does many, many things to make their product better over the years... they've got licensing agreements like Burt Reynolds will read you a book... movie dubbing is so amazing now where it sounds like they're just acting in a different language."
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"The great thing for me is I got in at a company Silicon Graphics which had all kinds of innovation and I saw what that was and how you can really change things and that kind of built a foundation for the rest of my career."
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"Meta's got a whole program to train people up to do this job — it's like a new job corps where they train people for free to do this job."
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"Whatever Grok can come out of nowhere — all of a sudden it's real."
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"Scott Weissen did a deal for the other company in the space, Lyft. And that kind of got off to a very difficult start, largely because of Uber."
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"He recently, based on that success, got a big deal with Netflix."
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"The grand wizard of this is Alex Karp. If you watch his interviews, he never talks about Palantir. The only thing he ever says about Palantir is ontology and orchestration, two words that nobody knows what they mean. And like nobody knows what Palantir does as a result, but it doesn't matter because it's like the future of the US military, Palantir."
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"I was asking them what does everybody in Washington read? And it's the Mark Halperin newsletter, which is new media. I fully expected Axios, the Washington Post, and so forth."
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"I'm a huge fan of CrowdStrike, too"
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"I have friends who who have dropped out for for YC"
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"we sold that to Charity Navigator and I worked there"
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"And it's really like the anti-Grammarly"
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"So you know kind of the venture capitalists of the railroads and the automobiles and so forth you know ended up becoming JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs etc."
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"And then the second thing that's like nobody wants to do, including OpenAI or Anthropic, is sell to the damn travel manager."
"I think OpenAI is higher than that by some significant amount"
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"Nvidia will make enough chips, but then we won't have enough memory."
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"And then the second thing that's like nobody wants to do, including OpenAI or Anthropic, is sell to the damn travel manager."
"What did Anthropic say? They were at 14 billion in revenue"
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"You want to kind of do the things that Intuit is doing where like okay like turn ourselves into more of an AI company."
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"So you know kind of the venture capitalists of the railroads and the automobiles and so forth you know ended up becoming JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs etc."
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"Anthropic is one of the most negligent companies that we've ever seen in terms of their own security. They let Claude Code, one of their crown jewels, just walk out the door because they had such bad opsec."
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