Ben Horowitz Net Worth
Entrepreneur and capital investor Ben Horowitz is known for several extremely successful deals in the IT industry. The biggest hit was probably when he sold Opsware to HP fo 1.6 billion in 2007. It was a software as a service business that Horowitz co-founded with his three friends. We estimate that Horowitz’z personal net worth is probably about $500 million as of 2015, judging from his largest deals and considering multiple business partners ad taxes.
Ben was born June 13, 1966 in London, United Kingdom. He has a BA degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MS degree in Computer Science from UCLA. He worked as an engineer at Silicon Graphics for his first job. After that, he had stellar career at Netscape where he made it to the Vice President.
He owns luxurious house in famous Silicon Valley, California. He’s married to Felicia Wiley Horowitz. They have three kids, one son and two daughters. Horowitz has also a very charitable nature. In 2012, he promised to give half of his lifetime income from venture capital to charity.
Horowitz isn’t just an angel investor. He has experiences with building companies from the scratch which is case also with his biggest success up to day, Opsware formerly known as Loudcloud. He also wrote a book titled The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. So his net worth has multiple sources to thrive.
