Forward Deployed Motion

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the a16z Podcast 20VC

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20VC Opinion
Healthcare AI startups do not need forward-deployed engineers
“No, you don't. Not in our case. You're going to get to that zero to one. You're going to get to that first product in all the ways, like people in, you know, in the health systems, in the clinics and listening to the doctors and the nurses and figuring it out.…”
Shiv Rao May 16, 2026 ▶ 25:21 The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Insight
Scharfstein: Forward-deployed deployment goals must remain separate from sales incentives
“In terms of compensation structure, I'm not an expert, but I will say that I think in the forward deployed motion, the goal is to build a repeatable process through your customers and having that orthogonal to your go-to-market incentives is important because …”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 36:19 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work

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