Ben Horowitz

And then I did this big, there was this, Sarah Lacey had this big, big event, and she interviewed me on it.

And she's like, well, you know, you seem like kind of,

you don't like other VCs.

And I quoted Lil Wayne.

I said, when I see another VC coming at me with the peace sign, all I see is the trigger and the middle finger, you know.

And everybody hated me for that.

But it kind of worked because they hated me so much they weren't willing to copy what we were doing, even though what we were doing was working.

So it kind of backed.

I don't know if I would have been that antagonistic again, but, you know, it worked.

So you can't argue with it.

Yeah, I mean, I think so.

So the big thing that's changed is that

or the kind of most fundamental thing that changed from a VC standpoint in my mind is

It used to be, I mean, for my entire career, the one thing that you knew about technology companies is you couldn't throw money at the problem.

So if somebody had a two-year lead on you, you could not hire a thousand engineers and catch them.

That, like, was never going to work because, you know, nine women can't have a baby in a month.

Like, there were just things you could not parallelize, and then the communication overhead would kill you.

And

My favorite joke used to be, you know, what's a man year?

It's like 700 IBMers before lunch, right?