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a16z operates without a head of diversity or diversity program
“But we don't have a head of diversity. We don't have program. We just have, like, criteria that's wide, where we can see talent that we ourselves might not have.”
Horowitz: a16z employees who publicly trash startups on Twitter are fired
“One of the things I tell everybody at New Employee Orientation is if you get on Twitter, like some VCs, and start shitting all over somebody's company, you know, saying, oh, they'll never make any money, that's a dumb idea, I can't believe they called it bodeg…”
Ben Horowitz fined a16z team members $10 per minute for late meetings
“So, you know, I was determined, ok, how do we set the culture so that doesn't happen, and so the, you know, one of the first rules I put in place is, if you're late to meeting with an entrepreneur, 10 dollars a minute fine.”
a16z surveys rejected founders to measure if they were treated respectfully
“We measure, we do a customer satisfaction survey of entrepreneurs we rejected to measure whether we treated them with, because that's kind of, to me, the litmus test of, are you treating people with respect?”
Horowitz invested in Databricks the day it incorporated
“When Databricks came to me, like I invested the day they incorporated the company”
Quincy Jones, P Diddy, and Kevin Durant are a16z fund LPs
“One of the reasons we started the Cultural Leadership Fund is we wanted a partnership with people who knew how to move culture in the general sense. And if you look at the LPs in that fund, Quincy Jones P Diddy Kevin Durant, so forth, they're all people who ha…”