Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with Marc Andreessen in 2009, launching it with $300 million in capital. The firm's crypto fund, a16z crypto, invests in crypto and blockchain startups. He previously co-founded Loudcloud and served as its CEO through its conversion into Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in 2007, and he wrote the New York Times bestsellers The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are.