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Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by chx »

lquist wrote: post #70

I was recently grabbing dinner with a group of CEOs and the unanimous sentiment was that they would never take money from a16z (3 founders had already and one other had a terrible experience with them during the pitch). It seemed to come down to how combative and unhelpful the partners were. I am sharing because it was a bit of a surprise to me (bootstrapped) and I think it’s important to share insight into VCs—-ther…

It's well known a16z guys will immediate ban anyone on Twitter the moment for ... anything. I am not talking of trolling, abuse -- just polite disagreement, instant ban. Never seen any other organization doing similar and so consistently.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by hawaiianbrah »

2arrs2ells wrote: post #36
Judgmentality wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have any of those companies gone public yet? While I believe there is a shift north, I also believe a lot of the newer companies won't exist in 5 years. I guess I feel SF is still a lot more ephemeral than its southern neighbors.

Twitter, Atlassian, Eventbrite, Okta & Dropbox, are all pubic & in SF. Facebook, Google, Microsoft (Github) have a sizeable SF presence.

Also Microsoft (Xamarin)

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by bhl »

eanzenberg wrote: post #19
abakker wrote: post #18

In the article about Sam Altman stepping down, it mentioned that YC was moving to the city as well. I guess the center of the universe is less and less actually SV.

I think the center of SV is becoming SF actually.

This seems odd, sort of paradoxical, since in the last 10 years San Francisco seems to be on a decline: not in the number of tech companies or new high rises being built, but in public health with the homeless population and cleanliness of streets — for the common person San Francisco is getting worse but VCs want to move there?

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by exortaz »

lquist wrote: post #70

I was recently grabbing dinner with a group of CEOs and the unanimous sentiment was that they would never take money from a16z (3 founders had already and one other had a terrible experience with them during the pitch). It seemed to come down to how combative and unhelpful the partners were. I am sharing because it was a bit of a surprise to me (bootstrapped) and I think it’s important to share insight into VCs—-ther…

can you elaborate? my experience has been fairly good so far, pretty insightful people

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by zavi »

KorematsuFred wrote: post #45

I think the millennials are settling into better jobs like Google and Facebook and the younger people are flocking to startups. That might be the reason why startups are now focusing on SF rather than SJ area.

Google and Facebook are expanding aggressively in SF also.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by nathankunicki »

dmode wrote: post #79

It is surreal to commute and work in SF. I take BART or Caltrain to work and amazed every day to see hundreds of thousands of engineers, product managers, sales people, data scientists get off in Embarcadero and walk to their destination. If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I play “backpack bingo”, where I try to identify someone’s employer from their backpack

The backpack does seem to the be swag of choice for SF tech employees. Everything from Uber to LinkedIn to PlayStation. Tech branded backpacks everywhere.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by abakker »

daferna wrote: post #78
eanzenberg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the center of SV is becoming SF actually.

Silicon Valley, by definition, will never include San Francisco as San Francisco is not in a valley.

That's kind of what I was going for, but I guess the bay area has become the same as SV for most people.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by cylinder »

pj_mukh wrote: post #80

I wonder how much of this is just because of the failure of Bay Area-wide fast public transit. BART never made it to the peninsula and electrification of Caltrain is taking its sweet time. The only remaining option seems for everyone to crowd into SF :/.

Insane we are talking about electrifying a train line in 2019 in the tech capital of America.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by backpropaganda »

chx wrote: post #81
lquist wrote: post #70

I was recently grabbing dinner with a group of CEOs and the unanimous sentiment was that they would never take money from a16z (3 founders had already and one other had a terrible experience with them during the pitch). It seemed to come down to how combative and unhelpful the partners were. I am sharing because it was a bit of a surprise to me (bootstrapped) and I think it’s important to share insight into VCs—-ther…

It's well known a16z guys will immediate ban anyone on Twitter the moment for ... anything. I am not talking of trolling, abuse -- just polite disagreement, instant ban. Never seen any other organization doing similar and so consistently.

How a16z manages their social media doesn't seem very relevant to founders who are deciding on VCs. Could you clarify if you disagree?
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