Andreessen Horowitz

“I got my series B term sheet in 2000 eight, I guess it was. And or 2009 and I had three venture firms. Andreessen was one of them that gave me a term sheet. And the interesting thing about at that time with Andreessen was they gave me a term sheet. I was tryin…”

“Andresa, but Andresa made like twenty billion of returns, of which, you know, they're probably getting 25, 30%. So they made the most money.”

“They're basically set up to become Sequoia. If they really, I mean, I think if you think about like which two firms are really. Crushing on all cylinders right now, obviously Sequoia has always been the perennial number one, but if you think about the heater t…”

“They've got like, 200 people doing it.”

“When we see these projects, all these companies tend to raise, you know, three, four, five million bucks. It all tends to be at like, thirty million pre, and it all tends to be distributed. So like, you know, it's us, Andreessen, Sequoia, and it's like, you kn…”

“It's very likely that you'll see Andreessen be the first”

“I had three term sheets for my Series B. It was from Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Founders Fund. And Founders Fund came in kind of last minute. But I went with Khosla, even though it's a lower valuation”

“In crypto, they're excellent.”

“That seems like the firm that did this the most is Andreessen Horowitz.”

“Any of these publicly traded investment managers, they live and die by their ability to constantly be raising funds, which implicitly means you have to constantly be writing funds. The returns decay, but that's okay, because now you're feeding, you're, you kno…”

“You have to understand the Andreessen business model Andreessen Horowitz business model is to become Blackstone, but for technology.”

“I had offers from I guess I'll say it, Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz for my Series B. Vinod gave me the lowest valuation, and I still took his offer.”

“But are they going to generate huge rates of return? Probably not, because that's not what real estate is known for.”

“They're marching towards a trillion. They're going to be the next Blackstone, which I think is an incredible feat.”

“There was an article in the New York times this week, which really surprised me, but the largest donor in the, in this election cycle is Andreessen Horowitz.”

“Maybe, maybe you can theorize that there will be agents that will sit at Andreessen Horowitz and whoever else, your funds, but I think the human will always have to be there”

“I actually think the public markets may be shifting back in this direction. And a lot of the companies in our portfolios are now thinking about going public at a billion or three billion or five billion. We had this period of a decade where Andreessen was real…”

“The cursor was decent. It was like an appetizer, but SpaceX was the main course. That's like 15, seventeen billion.”