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 .

This week, the two former colleagues were reunited with Raghuram joining a16z as a managing partner. Raghuram, who will be a general partner on the firm’s AI infrastructure and growth teams, is joining a16z at a time of great change—both in the VC business and, thanks to AI, across the tech industry.

I sat down with Horowit

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