Ben Horowitz and Raghu Raghuram first met at Netscape, in very different lives.
Horowitz took on the then very-early-career Raghuram as a product manager at the seminal dotcom-era browser company. In the decades since, Horowitz went on to build VC giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), while Raghuram took his own path to VMware, rising to CEO in 2021, and two years later shepherding the cloud infrastructure giant through its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom.
