Anish Acharya

He knows how to get the best out of Andreessen Horowitz.

And it's not just the investors, the entire team shows up for him that way.

Could he do it without us?

Of course he could.

Yeah.

Well, first, pick an investor that does stuff, I think, number one.

I think number two is... How do you know everyone says they do?

Well, the best way is talk to other founders, right?

You should talk to other founders.

I think the second thing is, again, the VC can't distort the market, right?

All they can do is make all the introductions.

And I think the best thing, Mark talked about this, is when you're small, the VC sort of gives you power, right?

That's what you want.

So the VC basically takes your brand, which is not big, and they lend you their brand.

So you're not XYZ company, you're an Andreessen Horowitz company.

Now over time, your brand becomes much bigger than Andreessen Horowitz, and that is great, but they can help bootstrap you and create credibility in conversations, but you still have to have the best product technology go to market to go win the customer.

Alex is just such a beast in terms of his go-to-market instincts, his product creativity, and just his responsiveness.

The guy's nuts.

Alex is 100% working all the time.

It's just incredible.