Ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram joins Andreessen Horowitz

Catch up quick: Raghuram spent more than 20 years with VMware, leaving after the company was purchased for $69 billion in late 2023.

• He was hired out of school by Ben Horowitz to work in the product management group of Netscape, the browser company cofounded by Marc Andreessen.

What they're saying: "All of computing is being reinvented," Raghuram tells Axios. "I've always been an operator, but I'm first and foremost a technologist. Had I gone into another operating role, at this unique time, it might have felt too constraining."

• Horowitz adds: "Raghu is one of the top infrastructure strategists of the last decade, and also is very smart on M&A and has relationships with every important CEO in tech, which will be a great benefit to our infrastructure and growth teams."
• He continues: "We also have giant ambition as a firm, but I often end up being the bottleneck for some of our new initiatives, particularly with Scott gone, and Raghu is the one guy besides me who I'd trust to manage stuff at the firm."