Andreessen Horowitz Part I (Acquired)

Acquired’s first episode on a16z, as Kyle took notes on it.

Why it was kept

Kyle’s notes focus on the Opsware story Ben Horowitz tells in The Hard Thing About Hard Things: a company trading at half its cash that changed its product and was eventually acquired for $1.6B, and the line “Can you stay alive long enough to be lucky?”

As Kyle captured it

• Listenedd to Acquired (podcast)
  • Source
  • 1 hour and 38 minutes: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    • Efficient Market Theory
    • Their company (OpsWare) was trading at half of their cash; changed the product, and eventually got acquired for $1.6B (2x their IPO price)
    • “Can you stay alive long enough to be lucky?”

Connections

Acquired (podcast) · The Hard Thing About Hard Things · Efficient Market Theory · a16z