Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor: "Sand Hill Road 'frenemies'"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Kupor, managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about why this boom is different from 2000 (1:50), if it is easier today to start a company (6:10), and why it is harder to get big (7:50), the rise of the “mullet” (9:20), why he wrote a book (12:00), why Y Combinator is important (13:20), the investor profiles it keeps (15:40), being “frenemies” with Y Combinator (17:05), the weirdness of venture capital competition (18:25), what goes wrong (20:00), dealing with ego (22:50), what happens when companies fail (24:05), whether Facebook should be broken up (26:50), the changes coming to antitrust laws (30:30), the opportunity to build a decentralised giant (32:00), managing conflict (34:05), and the importance of the “warm intro” (35:50).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley before we get to today's show one very exciting announcement.
0:08.8	The pivot is here.
0:11.6	So I gave you a heads up a few weeks ago that we were working on a new podcast, which is a series of mini documentaries about Silicon Valley.
0:18.9	Well, the feed is up. So please go over there right now and
0:24.3	subscribe. It's called The Pivot, two words. And the thumbnail is a picture of me looking like
0:30.2	The Terminator, so you can't miss it. I'll also put the link at the top of my Twitter feed,
0:34.7	which is at Danny Fortson. So the first episode drops next week.
0:40.3	And we'll also be putting the episodes into this feed.
0:42.5	So anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy it.
0:44.4	We put a lot of work into it, and it's really fun.
0:48.4	So please stop right now, sign up for The Pivot.
0:51.0	Tell a friend, and I hope you guys enjoy it.
0:53.7	Now, on to today's show yo technology
0:59.9	what is it all about this week on Danny in the Valley we have Scott Cooper who's the
1:09.3	managing partner at Andresen Horowitz, the $10 billion venture
1:13.9	capital giant behind companies like Airbnb, Lyft, Lyme, Slack, all kinds of unicorns and other
1:20.9	interesting companies. Cooper has been there since day one, so he has a lot of great
1:26.6	insights and stories.
1:28.5	And he's just written a book called Secrets of Sand Hill Road,
1:31.4	which pulls back the curtain on the world of Silicon Valley Venture Capital.
1:35.9	We cover a lot of ground, and I think you'll really dig it.
1:38.7	So I'm going to stop talking.
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