# Ben Horowitz

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What’s the Biggest Threat to the U.S. Economy’s Soft-Landing? — ft. Mark Zandi

Scott and Ed open the show by discussing Starboard Value’s activist stake in Pfizer, the end of the Longshoremen’s strike, and Ben Horowitz’s decision to donate to Kamala Harris’s campaign. Then Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody’s Analytics, joins the show to discuss the recent jobs data and why…

GEO vs. SEO: What Actually Works in AI Search? 🤖 | Ross Hudgens

https://page2pod.com - Generative engine optimization (GEO) runs on off-site signals: reviews, Reddit, publishers and best-of lists. Ross Hudgens explains.Ross Hudgens, Founder & CEO of Siege Media and author of the new Wiley book Generative Engine Optimization: The Definitive Guide to AI SEO, retu…

The Untold Story of HubSpot! | HubSpot Fmr President & COO

Exclusive: JD Sherman, Former President & COO of HubSpot joins us to discuss how HubSpot scaled from roughly $20 million to over $1 billion in revenue! During his nearly decade-long tenure, JD helped lead HubSpot through its IPO, scaling the organization from approximately 200 to over 4,000 employe…

Episode 284 | Oscar Daws, Co-Founder of Tone Product Design | The Art of Medtech Design: Challenges, Usability, and Branding

In this episode, Oscar Daws, London-based product designer and co-founder of Tone Product Design, joins Duane Mancini to explore what it really takes to turn complex medical technology into products people can use, and want to use. Oscar shares how he moved from broad product design training into m…

Robbing Peter to Pay Zuckerberg

Skippy & Doogles dig into the economics of the AI boom, starting with a warning from venture capital legend Ben Horowitz that has Skippy feeling pretty good about his bearish take on CoreWeave. Then we hit on Elon Musk flirting with a Tesla-SpaceX merger and Meta releasing a new class of non-voting…

a16z's First Employee on the History of a16z, Venture Capital & Fixing the Government | Scott Kupor

Scott Kupor is the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which serves as the HR and talent agency for the federal government's roughly two million civilian employees. He worked with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at Loudcloud and Opsware, which sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the $220 Billion AI Buildout

A16z Podcast Intro Check out the episode pageRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Amazon expects to spend roughly $220 billion in CapEx in 2026, yet CEO Andy Jassy says the company is still leaving meaningful AI demand on the table.** He believes the buildout could ultimately help make AWS a…

The Builder's Bookshelf: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (EP.45)

In this episode of The Builder's Bookshelf, we break down Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things and explore the uncomfortable realities of construction leadership, where failing projects, difficult personnel decisions, financial pressure, and impossible choices rarely come with a playbook…

Scott Kupor on Building a16z and Rebuilding the Federal Workforce

Scott Kupor helped build a16z from three people into a firm with hundreds of employees. Now, as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he’s applying some of the same lessons about talent, incentives, and organizational design to a workforce of roughly two million federal employees. Sc…

They Rebuilt the Guild and Charged Tuition

In 1999, the last year Buick City built cars, a supervisor in Trim 1 was told to form me. His name was Rick Stork. He held no teaching credential. He did not start me on takt time or line balance. He started me on the four upāyas, the old Indian ladder of influence: sāma, dāna, bheda, daṇḍa. Persu…