Doshi, the twenty-six-year-old C. In many respects, he is the quintessential Silicon Valley venture capitalist: an imposing, fortyish, long-celebrated white man. But, whereas most V. He believes that tech products will soon erase such primitive behaviors as paying cash Bitcoin , eating cooked food Soylent , and enduring a world unimproved by virtual reality Oculus VR.
He believes that Silicon Valley is mission control for mankind, which is therefore on a steep trajectory toward perfection. They will be either lucky or wrong. Since the firm was launched, six years ago, it has vaulted into the top echelon of venture concerns.
Competing V. A16z invests in fifteen. With great luck, once a decade that unicorn will become a Google or a Facebook and return the V. There are eight hundred and three V. Doshi had run the gantlet before. In , he tracked down Andreessen and his equally if less splendidly bald co-founder, Ben Horowitz, at a Ritz-Carlton near Tucson. Now he was back for more. As Andreessen drank an iced tea in two gulps and began to roam the room, Doshi called up a slide that showed his competitors—Localytics, Amplitude, Google Analytics—grouped into quadrants.
Andreessen gripped the back of his chair. When a startup is just an idea and a few employees, it looks for seed-round funding. Most V. Founder with experience? Good sales pipeline?
X per cent of month-over-month growth? The future is always stranger than we expect: mobile phones and the Internet, not flying cars. The black-swan events of the past forty years—the PC, the router, the Internet, the iPhone—nobody had theses around those. This tale begins in another age which happens to be the future , and features a lowborn hero who knows a secret from his hardscrabble experience.
