This is how startups quietly pull ahead
a16z·2025-12-22 20:00

Whoever gets more momentum ends up winning. And so a big role of a VC is to kind of help you get that momentum. So, oh, I raised money from the best VC.Therefore, [music] like smart engineers, they'll join my company and not their company. So, then I have better engineers and I have better product. Then I [music] pick up more customers and then I have more money and I get raised the next round faster and [music] away I go.And not tell you when. ...