A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
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A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
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#2I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
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#3See are blogs in general as well as HN.
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#4Phenomenon is hardly unique to A16Z
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#5Not all of them are marketing. Some of them expose his belief system. After “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” it’s very hard for me to take him seriously again.
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#6Just wait til you read Sequoia’s deleted puff piece on SBF: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
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#7I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
Yeah, and the quality of the 'marketing writing' is good and informative. Because A16z can afford high quality writing...
These 'emerging stack' articles do promote their own companies, but are nevertheless useful for newcomers into a field, to quickly grasp the process and the players. If you don't like it, compile your own version.
I've used some companies recommended in their data architecture and it worked very well.
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#8I mean it's not like they're claiming to be Gartner..who by the way, gasp, do paid marketing for "fair" rankings.
Re: A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
#9I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
Yeah, and the quality of the 'marketing writing' is good and informative. Because A16z can afford high quality writing... These 'emerging stack' articles do promote their own companies, but are nevertheless useful for newcomers into a field, to quickly grasp the process and the players. If you don't like it, compile your own version. I've used some companies recommended in their data architecture and it worked very w…
Hot take: I think the fact vector DBs are even a hot field with multiple competitors speaks to the bending of the branches due to VC weight, so to speak. These things take ~40 LOC and 3 hours to write yourself, they can process ~20 pages/seconds ms, locally, on devices from 3 years ago that fit in your pocket. Having it hosted is a massive privacy risk. Yet how many vector DBs as companies articles have we seen, and how many ONNX tutorials have we seen?
Re: A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
#10Phenomenon is hardly unique to A16Z
If you define it widely as "people writing about things they have a vested interest in", maybe. In a16z's case they went out of their way to stand up media pipelines a few years back.