Ben Horowitz and I co-founded one of the first cloud computing companies which we named, appropriately enough, Loudcloud. So we’ve been thinking about the cloud longer than most folks. In fact, we had to call ourselves a “managed services provider” in those days since no one was talking about “cloud providers” in the year 2000.…
Technology
Why Do We Prefer Founders as CEOs?
When I introduced our venture firm on this blog in July, I wrote extensively about the types of entrepreneurs and companies we want to fund: technical founders, brilliant and motivated entrepreneurs, product-focused companies, and so on. I got widespread head...
What Some VCs Do That We Don't Like
My partner Ben and I have been active angel investors for years and now full-time venture capitalists for 9 months. But prior to that (and for most our lives), we've been entrepreneurs. Now that we've sat on both sides of...
What Some VCs Do That We Don’t Like
My partner Ben and I have been active angel investors for years and now full-time venture capitalists for 9 months. But prior to that (and for most our lives), we've been entrepreneurs. Now that we've sat on both sides of the table—and have spent more time with other venture capitalists—my partner Ben has a few…
Don't fool yourself -- they're coming for us
[Link: Watch a robot reassemble itself without human help.]
Oh. Wow.
Future blogger Alexei Barrionuevo writing in the New York Times: When military forces loyal to Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup [in Santiago, Chile] in September 1973, they made a surprising discovery. Salvador Allende’s Socialist government had quietly embarked on...
My brain just exploded
I have a feeling that someday, this may be up there with "Come here, Watson, I need you." [Link: Wireless neckband and first voiceless phone call.]
