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Andreessen: a16z passed on Anduril Series A out of political fear
“The most straightforward example is the deal we didn't do, we should have done, is the Andrewle Series A right, which was like, which was just, like, sort of obvious that it was gonna be special, and, you know, Palmer, we had worked with Palmer at Oculus, and …”
Andreessen: a16z Should Reflexively Back Every European Founder Moving to US
“One of my things in the firm is I say, we should back every single European founder who moves to the US. Like, we should just reflexively say yes.”
Horowitz refused to distribute 'Extreme Ownership' to a16z founders
“I recommended to Ben when that book came out, I fell in love with it and I recommended to Ben. I said, we need to send this to all of our founders and like teach this. And he's like, Mark, you're out of your mind. Like our founders already have the problem whe…”
Andreessen: Track record of convincing founders against overfunding is zero
“My track record of ever convincing any founder on this point, I think is zero, but I will keep trying.”
Andreessen: a16z has long considered launching credit and public equity funds
“So the two that we've kicked around for a long time are public equity on the one hand and then credit on the other hand. And I think there's really good reasons to do both. And then there's issues with both in terms of issues specifically with respect to runni…”
Andreessen: More optimistic about the US than two years ago
“I'm a lot more optimistic than I was two years ago and I'm a lot less optimistic than I was 20 years ago.”
Andreessen: a16z partners have full autonomy to take contrarian risks
“So the deal we kind of make with all of our investing partners is they all get to take risk. So they all get to go out on a limb and do the things that other people are going to think are dumb. And so they don't generally like backbite each other on that.”