Ben Horowitz Ideas Quotations

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?