Weird ways Ben Horowitz makes Founders more confident

All right, today we're hanging out with Ben Horowitz, the co founder of A sixteen Z. These guys manage forty six billion in assets. They've invested in Stripe, Coinvase, Open AI, a bunch of the big hit tech companies. But today we're talking about stuff that you don't usually get to hear from Ben. So things like How do you actually have a high confrontation conversation? The advice he actually gives his founders. Things like when he met Mark Zuckerberg and he was really young, what he noticed about Mark that was different And what makes him such a great CEO that you can kinda steal or copy from Mark Zuckerberg's playbook. Sam, what else have we got?

Dude, we also just hung out with him, which is like the best part. And so he tells a story about how he helped catch Tupac's killer. Uh and we also asked him what interests him right now. What books is he reading, what content is he consuming, what rabbit holes is he going down, and it was incredibly interesting. Awesome conversation with Ben Horwitz. Enjoy. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to I put my all in it like my day's all on the road, less travel never. Okay, so I have a good two park story for you.

Oh my gosh. All right. I'm incredibly excited to hear it. So my wife is like a biggest Las Vegas evangelist in the world. And she was uh Talking to Quincy Jones is on Q D three.

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