Here’s What’s on Ben Horowitz’s iPhone

The Andreessen Horowitz co-founder talks crypto, notifications, and more

This is “What’s on Your Home Screen?” a Q&A column from OneZero. We want to understand more about how people use their smartphones — those life-consuming devices we dump hours into every day — to pave a way toward a better future. Or at least a more reflective one. We’ll add new entries regularly, and each will feature a new interview with a notable person about the apps they use, how they’re organized, and whether those red bubbles drive them nuts.

It’s not much of a statement to say Ben Horowitz is one of the most powerful people in technology. Water is wet; the sky is blue.

A co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Horowitz has been connected to major investments in companies like Facebook, Pinterest, Skype, Airbnb, Foursquare, Coinbase, Soylent, GitHub, Lyft, Imgur, and, yes, Medium. (Disclosure!) So he knows a thing or two about trendspotting.

With all of that in mind, I wanted to learn more about how he uses his phone. Is his home screen filled with things Andreessen Horowitz has invested in? (Yes.) Does he seem to think these are legitimately useful services? (Also yes.) Given the company’s reputation, is he constantly glued to his phone? (No. He even…