Andreessen Horowitz Part II - Acquired  ## Metadata - Author: **Acquired** - Full Title: Andreessen Horowitz Part II - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/d1fff582-2159-43d4-8012-5401708c62ec ## Highlights - Mark and Ben Know What They're Going to Do Summary: Mark and ben are both computer science under grads who have gone on to become founders of companies. Without a synthetic network, without a net of what andresand harowits would become a technical founder doesn't really have a chance of becoming a professional ceo. The pace of the company's growth is going to require a ceo network. A c e o's sort of understanding of how to organization build much faster than someone can develop those skills. And we're not going to do what david barn tried to do to us. Transcript: Speaker 1 A ha ha, ha, ha ha. That's actually great, because i cut that from the quote that i was getting ie start. That's the perfect, perfect so much later, ben would actually just say, point blank, yous. We were always the anti bench our design was not to do what they did. And of course, he's referring to them telling him that he wasn't co material. But also, just like in general, we're gong to do the opposite of what they do. So now the question becomes, ok, you know, mark and ben know what they're going to do. They're going to counterposition against bench mark. How do they do that? Well, the obvious first thing is, we don't fire founders here. And we support young technical found help them become the best sos that they can be. And we're not going to do what david barn tried to do to us. Speaker 2 And i love the way they talk about this, because clearly it's something they deeply believe having both been computer science under grads and gone on to become founders of companies. The way that they sort of describe it is, without a synthetic network, without a net of what andresand harowits would become a technical founder doesn't really have a chance of becoming A professional ceo. The pace of the company's growth is going to require a ceo network. A c e o's sort of understanding of how to organization build much faster than someone can develop those skills. So the thesis behind developing what would later become form at the entire v c eco system platform teams ([Time 0:18:06](https://share.snipd.com/snip/abdf3042-fb01-4d75-a15b-4202ca74059b))