VC Ben Horowitz Dishes on Hadoop, AI, and Data Culture

"The product was just never good," the noted venture capitalist said today in a wide-ranging fireside chat with Sisu CEO Peter Bailis during the Future Data Conference. There's no denying that Horowitz has had an outside influence on tech startups with Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park, California investment firm that he co-founded with Marc Andreessen, the co-author of Mosaic and the founder of Netscape. The list of current investments and exits on the venture capital company's website is simply ridiculous. The storied Sandhill Road firm is currently invested in Sisu, which shows promise as a next-gen analytics system that uses machine learning to help people ask better questions of the data. Andressen Horowitz, which has $12 billion under management, has helped fund a variety of ecosystem tool players featured in these pages, like Alluxio, Anyscale, Cazena, Databricks, and Fivetran.