--- title: "Ben Horowitz: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Ben Horowitz, Co-founder, Andreessen Horowitz. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-ben-horowitz source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Ben Horowitz, Ben Horowitz AI, Ben Horowitz quotes, Ben Horowitz statements, Ben Horowitz on AI, what Ben Horowitz said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Ben Horowitz, Co-founder, Andreessen Horowitz. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-ben-horowitz The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Ben Horowitz [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-ben-horowitz) Co-founder, Andreessen Horowitz · Andreessen Horowitz ## Why now No headline this week names Ben Horowitz. ## What they said 4 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Ben Horowitz, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Jul 26, 2026 In the record "Argued in an a16z podcast episode, The Fight Over Open Source AI, that open source AI is critical for security, innovation, and competition." [Open vs Closed Source](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-open) · [a16z.com](https://a16z.com/podcast/ben-horowitz-the-fight-over-open-source-ai/) - Oct 12, 2025 In the record "probably the biggest opportunity set that we've seen since we've been a firm" [Industry Deals](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-deals) · [Economy](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-economy) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/10/12/ben-horowitz-raghu-raghuram-interview-ai-politics/) - Jul 5, 2024 In the record "Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [a16z.com](https://a16z.com/the-little-tech-agenda/) - Jan 30, 2024 In the record "We have to make sure AI regulation doesn't slow down the tech industry" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/01/30/ben-horowitz-we-have-to-make-sure-ai-regulation-doesnt-slow-down-the-tech-industry.html) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Ben%20Horowitz#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Stories naming Ben Horowitz ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Jan 30, 2024 ["We have to make sure AI regulation doesn't slow down the tech industry"](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/01/30/ben-horowitz-we-have-to-make-sure-ai-regulation-doesnt-slow-down-the-tech-industry.html) - Jul 5, 2024 ["Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech"](https://a16z.com/the-little-tech-agenda/) - Jan 30, 2024 ["We have to make sure AI regulation doesn't slow down the tech industry"](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/01/30/ben-horowitz-we-have-to-make-sure-ai-regulation-doesnt-slow-down-the-tech-industry.html) - Jul 5, 2024 ["Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech"](https://a16z.com/the-little-tech-agenda/) ## As filed What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. - Political contribution $25,000,000 to Leading the Future (FEC committee C00916114), through June 30, 2026 [open the document](https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00916114/?cycle=2026) June 30, 2026 · fec.gov Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Ben Horowitz with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.