Tenure Voting and Rethinking What’s Fair in Corporate Governance
One of the hardest problems in any organization, whether a democratic government or a corporation, is figuring out how to strike a balance between short-term interests and long-term goals. For some...
View Articlea16z Podcast: How to Get the Most from Your Board
If you’ve listened to parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part podcast series (which originally aired on YouTube), you learned whether venture capital is the best source of funding for your startup, and you’ve...
View ArticleShareholders vs. Stakeholders? No: Customers
As companies generally — and tech companies specifically — play a greater role in social and economic issues, the fundamental question that many consumers, politicians, and company builders are asking...
View Articlea16z Podcast: ‘The Most Boring Yet Valuable’ 20 Minutes, All about Board Minutes
“The most boring yet valuable podcast in a16z history” — he (our guest Joe Grundfest) said it, not we! That’s because in this episode of the a16z Podcast, Stanford law professor and former SEC...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks
It’s easy to argue for “choosing possibility” when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to networks and others don’t. BoardList — more of a talent...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
There is increasing interest among companies — small and large — in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: get some senior technical experts to help with the...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
Getting a board seat isn’t just about adding value, but also about what value you take from it for your career. But why do it? When? How? And should you focus on a public or private company? To...
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How One Silicon Valley Exec Landed Her First Fortune 500 Board Seat
Gerri Elliott The odds of women finding a board seat in the Fortune 500 are slim, but Gerri Elliott devised a plan of attack and found her way. If you look at the Fortune 500, roughly 200 to 300 board...
View ArticleWhat Corporate Boards Can Learn from Delaware
Here’s a catch-22: While someone starting a cosmetics company, for example, would prefer to surround themselves with the best and brightest in both industry domain expertise (someone who knows the...
View ArticleShareholder’s Best Interests
To me it’s kinda funny, the attitude showing a n***a driving But don’t know where the fuck he’s going, just rolling –Easy E, “Straight Outta Compton“ Recently, major shareholders and board members of...
View Articlea16z Podcast: On Fear and Leadership — Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs
There’s a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders — and their startups — go through, whether it’s product-sales-etc. or pioneer to settler. In any case, as … The post a16z Podcast: On Fear...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Software has Eaten the World…and Healthcare is Next
Back in 2011, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen first made the bold claim that software would eat the world. In this episode (originally recorded as part of an event at a16z), Andreesseen and a16z...
View ArticleTenure Voting and Rethinking What’s Fair in Corporate Governance
One of the hardest problems in any organization, whether a democratic government or a corporation, is figuring out how to strike a balance between short-term interests and long-term goals. For some...
View Articlea16z Podcast: How to Get the Most from Your Board
If you’ve listened to parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part podcast series (which originally aired on YouTube), you learned whether venture capital is the best source of funding for your startup, and you’ve...
View ArticleShareholders vs. Stakeholders? No: Customers
As companies generally — and tech companies specifically — play a greater role in social and economic issues, the fundamental question that many consumers, politicians, and company builders are asking...
View ArticleLimit, Don’t Ban, Dual-Class Share Structures
A fight is raging between chief executives and big investors over “dual” (or multi) class share structures, which give disproportionate voting rights to corporate founders and leaders at companies...
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a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board
“Orthogonal thinking” but “shared core values” — that’s what makes an ideal board… especially when it comes to “independents”, i.e., board members who aren’t also investors. But how do you get the...
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a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
“We’re always fighting the last war” — that’s a phrase historians like to use because policymakers and others tend to be so focused on the threats they already know, and our mindsets and...
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a16z Podcast: Boards, from Both Sides of the Table
A board veteran who has sat on both sides of the table, CEO of PagerDuty Jennifer Tejada shares what you gain from board membership (vs. being only an operator). How does being a board member change...
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16 Things to Get IPO Ready (or Just Build a Really Strong Business)
Should I take my company public? Why? If so, when and how? In this post, I’ll demystify these questions and provide a framework for answering them. If you think of companies as having a similar...
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