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How One Silicon Valley Exec Landed Her First Fortune 500 Board Seat
[caption id="attachment_8329" align="alignleft" width="200"] Gerri Elliott[/caption] If you look at the Fortune 500, roughly 200 to 300 board seats open up each year. Now consider the thousands of...
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a16z Podcast: Building a Better Board
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Breaking into the Boardroom
Finding, nurturing, and matchmaking great talent is central to what we do at a16z. We’re always on the lookout for the best people in technology, from engineers and product geniuses to executives of...
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a16z Podcast: The Truth about Serving on Boards
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a16z Podcast: Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
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a16z Podcast: Getting That First Board Seat
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a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
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a16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks
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a16z Podcast: ‘The Most Boring Yet Valuable’ 20 Minutes, All about Board Minutes
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Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies
The best founder/CEOs want to build long-lasting, strong companies. But this isn’t just a want, it’s a need — especially today as companies stay private longer. CEOs who expect their companies to be...
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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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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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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: 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...
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...
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: 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 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: 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 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...
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