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Ed Grefenstette and Sean Warrington – Venture Market Update (EP.488)
- ▶ 35:01 Ted Seides I know Paki McCormick recently put this piece out on A-sixteen Z, and when they raised their first four funds, people said, oh, if you do the math, you're going to have to generate two hundred fifty billion dollars of value. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:40 Ed Grefenstette The weaponization of the balance sheet is something we're all trying to figure out, and that's where Sean's comment earlier about the personal connective tissue between the GP and the founder, the special founders, is why there will always… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:37 Ed Grefenstette This is happening in some respects, if you look at, I think Andreessen came out recently and said, 80% of the founders that come to them are using open source Chinese LLMs, because it might be 70, 80% as effective, efficient, but it's a…
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 8:27 Josh Wolfe Andreessen, Horowitz, Lightspeed, Insight. 2 times in the scene
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 17:05 Dave Thornton Are Sequoia and Andreessen, but we need to know that they have historically produced good cash on cash returns.
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 46:03 Ted Seides You have the Andreessen full service model to venture. 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 4:59 Ted Seides Michael transitioned from entertainment to investing 30 years ago, advising Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the creation of A-sixteen Z,
- ▶ 39:37 Michael Ovitz I called up one of the guys at Andreessen Horwitz, and I said, could you send me, they do great diligence, the two toughest companies you ever diligence with all the backup, and they said, of course, I get the stuff 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:57 Michael Ovitz One day, I was in my office at Andreessen Horowitz in Palo Alto, and I'm driving back to San Francisco, and the phone rings.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 5:02 Ted Seides My guest is Chris Dixon, a general partner at A-sixteen Z, and one of the leading voices and investors in the space.
- ▶ 27:42 Chris Dixon I've been at Andrewson Horowitz for almost 11 years now.
- ▶ 1:01:57 Chris Dixon Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz at the firm 2 times in the scene
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 32:39 Magnus Grimeland We work with Andreas and Horowitz across the globe. 2 times in the scene
Ana Marshall – The Climb to Investment Excellence (EP.360)
- ▶ 5:04 Ted Seides Doug Leone from Sequoia, Lei Zhang from Hill House, and Mark Andreessen from A-sixteen Z.
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 24:39 Chris Douvos And they said, well, we feel like we're short stacked at the poker table because we're sitting at the poker table with guys like Andreessen and Khosla.
- ▶ 42:46 Ted Seides So they're not the tourists, but what Andreessen's done over the last decade, Sequoia with the one fund, some of these players that have really, as you mentioned earlier, Chris, the reason why you had to be bigger than first round was to…
- ▶ 54:26 Joelle Kayden It's just going to take longer, and so the amount of people that are continuing to develop and the attractiveness of the space, those courses at universities, the number of people that apply to Andreessen School, you know, we are in a…
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 40:44 Ted Seides I'm invested with Andreessen, for example, um, in their fund and, and I own some Bitcoin.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 32:34 Avichal Garg The intuition here is very much inspired actually by Andreessen, because I think when Andreessen got right, one of the things they got right, they essentially built a media company that monetizes with venture capital, and they realized… 7 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 4:00 Ted Seides My guest on the fifth episode of Crypto for Institutions II is Chris Dixon, a general partner at A-sixteen Z, where he leads crypto investing, overseeing the largest pool in the space at seven billion dollars across four dedicated venture… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:04 Ted Seides As you built this business at A-sixteen Z, the firm has this wonderful reputation for being a full service provider for portfolio companies, entrepreneurs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:57 Ted Seides Does the definition of what that means in a technical space in this mission-driven, decentralized way differ from what it might be, say, elsewhere in the types of entrepreneurs A-sixteen is backing outside of the space?
- ▶ 52:43 Chris Dixon People at the firm, Mark and Ben, I joined the firm in 2003 and I think they had a billion dollar fund, which at the time was a big deal. 2 times in the scene
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides From Sequoia, A-sixteen-Z, Union Square Ventures, and Founders Fund.
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 9:40 Marcos Veremis Several of these very highly regarded venture capital folks like Andreessen Horowitz or USV were considering this to be potentially as big as the internet.
- ▶ 16:51 Ted Seides So you may not want to say the names, but if I threw out an A-sixteen Z, a Paradigm, a Multicoin, I imagine there are a bunch of others.
- ▶ 18:24 Marcos Veremis When I was first meeting with several of these funds, outside of Polychain, and Andreessen, and Pantera, and a couple of funds that were in the space really early, there were several folks who were just entering in 2018, and their…
Leigh Drogen – Quantamental Approach to Crypto at Starkiller Capital (Manager Meeting, EP.32)
- ▶ 29:57 Leigh Drogen There are a couple of people out there like Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures that they're making these things.
Larry Kochard – From Endowment Professor to OCIO Chief at Makena Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.250)
- ▶ 51:24 Larry Kochard And the big generalist funds, with the exception of, say, I mean, Andreessen Horowitz, where clearly there is a focus on that.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 26:13 Sahil Bloom I was a big fan of Andreessen Horowitz, who was right in our, right in our backyard when I was out in Palo Alto. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:28 Sahil Bloom You were having this disruption where a barbell had formed, where on one end of that barbell, you have the Sequoia, Benchmark, Andreessen, Tiger Global, these like big name cache firms who, when they write a check into you, you're kind of… 2 times in the scene
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 4:00 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 24:16 Ted Seides It seems like certainly in the last decade, maybe starting with Andreessen, there's been real changes in how venture capitalists try to help their businesses. 2 times in the scene
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 25:39 Arjun Sethi And I think his desire was that A-sixteen Z had built out their enterprise infrastructure, what they do on the BD side to help with their teams. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:35 Arjun Sethi And when A-sixteen Z did it, they did it.
- ▶ 1:09:25 Arjun Sethi At A-Six and Z and what he's kind of built there and what his perspective is and has changed over time.
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 17:58 Annie Lamont One thing that happened, and I have to give Andreessen some credit for them, their model, in terms of
- ▶ 46:59 Annie Lamont I think, honestly, Andreessen, General Callis have done it great. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 19:37 Joelle Kayden But we are very fortunate that we've backed some terrific firms that we've stayed with, Excel since 2000, Andreessen since fund two.
- ▶ 21:32 Joelle Kayden There are the brand name funds, obviously, firms like Sequoia, Andreessen, Excel.
- ▶ 25:57 Joelle Kayden So if you're a marketplace consumer facing company, your number one draft pick is Jeff Jordan at Andreessen Horwitz, and you get a lot of ancillary services from Andreessen, but you really want Jeff on your board. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Joelle Kayden I would credit Chris Dixon and Andreessen and the team at Notation Capital Small Fund in Brooklyn that really had an early lens on that this was going to be an important fundamental technology.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
- ▶ 4:10 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 5:36 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 49:07 Fabrice Grinda We'll sit down with everyone at every stage, and I mean, Andreessen, Greylock, Vessemer, General Catalyst, Tiger, First Round, I mean, we'll really cover everything.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 30:18 Sean O'Sullivan I know that sounds ridiculous because we're not a 16 C and we don't have ten billion or twenty billion in our management.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 10:44 Chris Douvos Some people call it mango seed or whatever, and the taxonomy is so fractured as to be almost useless, but what we are seeing is that companies are getting a lot more financing in a lot earlier stage in their lives, and we've seen Greylock…
- ▶ 15:22 Ted Seides Across that 4000 players, you mentioned that a couple of the big brands, you know, Sequoia, Andreessen, Greylock have these seed stage funds. 2 times in the scene
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 4:09 Ted Seides Mark Andreessen from A-Six-Teen-Z famously proclaimed a decade ago that software is eating the world.
- ▶ 12:24 Ted Seides I've heard it over the years, and I especially picked up a couple of the episodes where you did long histories of some top venture firms, Sequoia, A-sixteen Z.
- ▶ 21:28 David Rosenthal So really the revolution, and we talk about this in our two-part Andreessen Horowitz series, it was Andreessen 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:59 David Rosenthal But it's funny that, you know, yes, so Andreessen Horowitz was the start of the change here, and I think what they realized without necessarily having the words for it, which is that there's two ways to think about what you're doing when… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Ted Seides And Andreessen comes in and says, okay, we're going to go across stages. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 David Rosenthal But this was one of the knocks against Andreessen Horowitz that everybody would say, like, ah, how could they be doing all these companies? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:13 David Rosenthal Andres and Horowitz, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:56 Ben Gilbert Realization Mark had when they were building Andreessen Horowitz, and they decided to raise a ungodly three hundred million dollar fund in their first fund in 2009.
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- ▶ 36:18 Henri-Pierre Jacques I think also part of that's really led to that is some of the people we had around us supporting, whether that's Josh Kalbman at first round and first round also does per round in all of their companies, or us talking to Ben Horowitz at…
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 22:06 Paula Volent I think Silicon Valley changed a little bit with Andreessen Horowitz when they came on the block and they developed really into very successful investors.
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 1:00:22 Barry Sternlicht And I, the biggest mistakes like you often find when you find Andreas and Horowitz and Sequoia are, they're all in this deal.
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 4:24 Ted Seides My friends at A-sixteen Z recently released an episode on their wildly popular A-sixteen Z podcast called All About NFTs, featuring Linda Shea from Scalar Capital, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:18 Sonal Chokshi Welcome to the Six and See Podcast Network.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
- ▶ 3:26 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Ari Paul, the co-founder and chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital, a crypto and blockchain investment firm he started alongside Matthew Goetz in 2017 with backing from Andreessen Horowitz and Union…
- ▶ 16:51 Ari Paul A-sixteen Z, every endowment was in their earlier funds. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on the A-sixteen Z crypto funds. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Chris Dixon I joined Andreessen Horowitz and have done venture capital since then.
- ▶ 22:31 Chris Dixon Our firm does, and we have a great, I think, practice group that does that. 4 times in the scene
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 48:25 Matthew Granade I mean, you have Andreessen Horowitz that registered as an RIA for whatever set of reasons.
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 18:12 Ted Seides There are, say, Andreessen Horowitz has taken that service model to a whole nother level in terms of volume. 2 times in the scene
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 4:11 Ted Seides My guest on today's first meeting is Scott Cooper, the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, also known as A-sixteen-Z for the 16 letters between the A in Andreessen and the Z in Horowitz. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Ted Seides And Andreessen Horowitz is getting formed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Ted Seides That model at the time when you launched Andreessen Horowitz, there was a lot of noise about ruffling feathers of what had already existed.
- ▶ 29:42 Ted Seides How's the decision-making process work here? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Ted Seides So when you're the closer brought in from the bullpen on the sought after deal, what is that last pitch for injuries?
- ▶ 54:38 Scott Kupor I would say for us, the biggest thing, and it's not as new, new anymore, but I think it's still new in the sense that I think it's still underscoped is this convergence of computer science and life sciences. 6 times in the scene