Ben Horowitz explains that the ideal founding team has both an inventor and a business expert. #startuptips #startupsuccess #startups #entrepreneurship #entrepreneur #entrepreneuradvice #entrepreneurlife #founderinspiration #inspiration #founderadvice #advice #foundertips #tips #foundersofinstagram #Founder #instagram #marcandreessen #hyperspace #Space #hyper #venture

An ideal founding team is usually two people, and the two people are of two different types. So one, you need an inventor, and it's the inventor's job to build the product that's ten times better than anything that's available to solve that problem. And then you need an entrepreneur, and the entrepreneur's job is to take the market. So my partner, Mark Andreessen, he was the inventor, and I was the entrepreneur. Now, what helped a lot for us is that as the entrepreneur, I've got a master's degree in computer science, so I understood invention, and I understood how to drive the company around continuous innovation, and that's really, really important. And Mark, although he was the inventor, you know, when he, like, invented the browser and a lot of important things, he knows a lot about business, and he knows a lot about taking markets, and he knows a lot about competition. And so the best thing to do is to have two people who know how to do both, but at least one person who's world-class in each, and that's how you think about the founding team.