The Gods of Silicon Valley

By Lee Konstantinou

Ben Horowitz Is Boring

By Daniel Oppenheimer
The year was 1995. The venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, who recently made news by endorsing Donald Trump for president, was in his late twenties, working as a computer engineer for a software company in Silicon Valley. He was good at his job, but not obviously headed for great things. Marc Andreessen, on the other hand, was a legend in the making. He was only twenty-two, but had already co-founded Netscape Communications, the world’s first great web browser company. Andreessen had co-written the code for the first iteration of the browser, Mosaic, when still an undergraduate computer science major at the…