Balaji Questioned About Roots of His Media Animosity
"Balaji, I feel like you've got this animosity for mainstream media. Where did it come from?" - Taylor
Hire Like a VC: Prioritize Top Talent over Process
Early-stage hiring can be a lot like venture investing: It's power-law driven: a few people contribute most of the value. So it’s far more important to hire the best people than it is to avoid making bad hires. Which means you’re...
Investing in MTS: Real-Time Multi‑Angle News on X
Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as...
Enduring Confidence Comes From Competence or Resilient Learning
Real (durable) confidence can only be earned via either developed competence and/or the meta skill of being able to try something, get rejected, learn from it and keep trying until you get good.
We're Hiring Across Multiple Roles—Join Our Team
Hiring more folks for all these positions. Get in touch with me or our team if this is you. - podcast host - research/monitoring/guest booking - writing - marketing/comms - X/posting/clipping - design - video - networks/community - CoS - portfolio services
A16z Hiring Leaders to Shape Tech Narrative
This is the part of my job at @a16z that most gets me up in the morning: building an incredible team. We’re hiring for a lot of roles at the moment: Chief of Staff: help me run all our initiatives at...
Only 50 Immediate‑Backable Founders And
We’ll cap the community at 50 people who are “immediately backable”, i.e. repeat founders and early employees & execs at top companies.
Silicon Valley Firms Outvalue Entire National Economies
Silicon Valley is repeatedly generating individual companies that are worth more than entire developed world national economies
Hire People Who Already Are the Role
Some people aren’t just in big roles, they *are* the role. e.g. Tammy at Stripe. Solana at FF. Katherine at AD/a16z. For appropriate roles, recruit people whose natural inclinations fit your business and pitch them "be yourself, just with more support...
Investing in Unlimited: Backing a Powerful Team
Stoked to announce our investment in Unlimited. Alex and Tara and team are a force. Watch this space.
A16z Launches New Media Fellowship for Online Talent
I'm excited to announce the a16z New Media Fellowship. Or as many people are saying, the Thiel Fellowship for the terminally online. Finding highly functional people who are also very online is hard, so we are creating a fellowship to gather and...
Venture as a Product: Building a Dedicated Organization
"When we started a16z, we decided we wanted to treat venture as not only a craft, but also a product, and staff an organization set up for that goal" - @pmarca David is the best "venture as a product" builder I...