# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-horowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:08:19.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-horowitz"
name: "Ben Horowitz"
slug: "ben-horowitz"
description: "Benjamin Abraham Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, a book about startups, and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TechCrunch_Disrupt_San_Francisco_2018_-_day_2_(42713740520)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.663685152057245
  historical:           16.32452533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 249
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump