To see previous reviews, check out our posts on Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson, and Ben Horowitz.
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, has known Coleman for years, since he was hired by Coleman as a summer intern at Silicon Graphics in 1986.
FORBES: Andreessen Horowitz Adds Ken Coleman As Special Advisor
Andreessen Horowitz has stormed the staid world of venture capital since Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen and his longtime partner Ben Horowitz founded the firm just two years ago.
Coleman fits two objectives for Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz says.
FORBES: Andreessen Horowitz Adds Ken Coleman As Special Advisor
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz believes in the importance of women in technology, a point he highlighted during a Technovation Challenge pitch event in Mountain View on April 28, 2012.
FORBES: VC Ben Horowitz: "The Future Of Humankind Is Dependent On Technovation Girls"
Ask Paul Graham, Brad Feld or Ben Horowitz.
FORBES: Y-Combinator To Entrepreneurs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Andreessen Horowitz, founded by former entrepreneurs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, have aimed to shake up the venture industry, and judging at least by the interest from limited partners it is making headway.
After Loudcloud escaped bankruptcy, CEO and co-founder Ben Horowitz restructured, laying off a third of the employees, transferring a third to new investor EDS, and keeping a third in a new company, OpsWare.
FORBES: Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer Criticizes Companies For Killing Their Employees
But the opening morning session of the conference, which featured Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of mobile payments startup Square, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of A16z felt more like a civics lesson in how technology should be used for the greater good.
应用推荐