Marc Andreessen

And so I don't think so.

And so I don't think so.

I mean, I would never rule anything out.

I mean, I would never rule anything out.

Ben and I have run public companies before.

Ben and I have run public companies before.

Ben's been the CEO of a public company before.

Ben's been the CEO of a public company before.

and so you know we know what that entails my funny version of the story so when we first started a16z we went around we met with a lot of the top vcs at the time this is in 2009 2008 2009 and kind of pitched them on what we were doing and got a variety of very interesting feedback and some of them became very you know very helpful to us and and really helped us but um we got some very interesting feedback and one legendary vc told us at the time he said the thing you're going to hate the most about being a vc is you're going to hate you're going to hate the lps

and so you know we know what that entails my funny version of the story so when we first started a16z we went around we met with a lot of the top vcs at the time this is in 2009 2008 2009 and kind of pitched them on what we were doing and got a variety of very interesting feedback and some of them became very you know very helpful to us and and really helped us but um we got some very interesting feedback and one legendary vc told us at the time he said the thing you're going to hate the most about being a vc is you're going to hate you're going to hate the lps

They are just like the worst people in the world.

They are just like the worst people in the world.

And he gave us what we call the mushroom talk, which is he said, you need to treat LPs like mushrooms, which is you put them in a cardboard box, you put the lid on the cardboard box, you put the box under the bed, and you don't open it for two years.

And he gave us what we call the mushroom talk, which is he said, you need to treat LPs like mushrooms, which is you put them in a cardboard box, you put the lid on the cardboard box, you put the box under the bed, and you don't open it for two years.

And we said, okay, that's one mentality.

And we said, okay, that's one mentality.

And then we said, well, wait a minute.

And then we said, well, wait a minute.

We've been running public companies for the last 15 years.

We've been running public companies for the last 15 years.