Agarwala: Successful VC firms avoid unanimous consensus on bold investments
Vineeta Agarwala · Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science · Sep 23, 2025 · at 14:27
Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), compares non-consensus venture decision-making models to grant allocation structures at the NIH.
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“It's sort of why many great venture partnerships you know, ourselves included, are not consensus driven. You can't drive, you can't require unanimous consent to fund a big, bold idea, because someone's gonna say, hey, no, no way that's gonna work.”
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