“I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.”

American businessman, investor, blogger, and author

Ben Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. A technology entrepreneur of the late 20th and 21st centuries, he is best known as the co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded Opsware, the enterprise software company where he served as president and chief executive officer before Hewlett-Packard acquired it in 2007. He also wrote The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, books shaped by his experience with startups and business culture.