I 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 o

I 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...