a16z Podcast: How To Understand And Choose A Venture Investor

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🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Incentives matter. So understanding the incentives of venture capitalists will help you decide if raising money from a venture investor makes sense for your business. In this first of a 3-part series, which originally aired as YouTube videos, a16z M...

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0:00.0	The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax,
0:05.6	or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed
0:10.3	at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. For more details, please see A16Z.com
0:16.8	slash disclosures. I'm Frank Chen, and today I'm delighted to be here with Scott Cooper.
0:22.3	Thank you for having me.
0:23.1	Scott and I have known each other for 15 years, maybe longer.
0:26.5	Maybe longer than that.
0:27.2	We were in the Hard Things book because we were both at Loud Cloud.
0:31.2	And we've been here at Andreessen Horwitz.
0:33.4	This is our 10th year.
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:34.9	Yeah.
0:35.3	Is this the longest you've ever held a job?
0:38.3	It is now that I year. Yeah. Yeah. Is this the longest you've ever held a job? It is now that I think about it, right?
0:39.8	Yeah, I mean, loud cloud ops where if you include the HP acquisition,
0:43.5	but every point got 10 years, right?
0:45.2	Yeah, but almost, yeah.
0:46.2	10 years at a single entity.
0:47.7	It's like the longest for me.
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:50.3	So Scott is our managing partner.
0:52.5	He was the first employee at Andreessen Horowitz. He is also my boss, so this is great that you're here. Somehow in the midst of a fundraise in managing the firm, you went off and wrote a book. And so we'll talk a little bit about that today. I try to stay busy, right? Yeah. So here's what we're going to do today.
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