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I stopped reading at the Ninja reference, but as for as far as I got, I disagree with the assumption that you can not find someone through an investors network.
by kls 17y ago
I stopped reading at the Ninja reference, but as for as far as I got, I disagree with the assumption that you can not find someone through an investors network. I am good friends with principals in a few VC firms and I am most certainly the idea man when they have a new venture and need technology help. I don't like managing people, (any team I assemble are self managed individuals) but I am the kind of guy that can scale a company from the first server to Google they know it and they recommend me all the time.
- eladgil 17y agoI agree that there are some people well networked with VCs that are strong individual contributors. I think there are specific venture funds/investors who go out of their way to know such people (I mention two of them in the blog) but there are also many VCs that mainly know "future VP engs" - some of whom are happy to get their hands dirty, but most of whom want to manage rather then write code...