Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor: "Sand Hill Road 'frenemies'"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor: "Sand Hill Road 'frenemies'"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:39:03
• Published: 2019-07-05 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Kupor, managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about why this boom is different from 2000 (1:50), if it is easier today to start a company (6:10), and why it is harder to get big (7:50), the rise of the “mullet” (9:20), why he wrote a book (12:00), why Y Combinator is important (13:20), the investor profiles it keeps (15:40), being “frenemies” with Y Combinator (17:05), the weirdness of venture capital competition (18:25), what goes wrong (20:00), dealing with ego (22:50), what happens when companies fail (24:05), whether Facebook should be broken up (26:50), the changes coming to antitrust laws (30:30), the opportunity to build a decentralised giant (32:00), managing conflict (34:05), and the importance of the “warm intro” (35:50).

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