Silicon Valley VCs are so caught up in where founders went to school, what awards they won in college, blah blah blah
Customers don’t care about any of it. We’ve index too far on the wrong things folks
High status = Revenue, Users, mission, profitability, building something cool
Low status = Headcount, Money raised, office size, advisors, going to conferences
Costco is immune to AI.
We did an entire @a16z pod on all the ways AI WILL disrupt commerce, and the businesses that are at risk - but this is my favorite clip.
@arampell on why Costco is "the greatest company in the world" ⬇️
I didn’t get the kind of autism that made me code things at a young age, but I did get the kind that made me locked into Nancy Drew games for days on end