I think you were referring to Marc Andreessen's AMA with Stripe Atlas founders [0] which was as recent as July: "Getting a warm introduction to a VC is a basic

I think you were referring to Marc Andreessen's AMA with Stripe Atlas founders [0] which was as recent as July: "Getting a warm introduction to a VC is a basic test of networking skills. VCs are dying for interesting qualified referrals from people in their network—angel investors, other VCs, advisors, coaches and mentors, lawyers, and customers. All of those people love giving qualified referrals to their favorite VCs. VCs are some of the easiest people in the world to reach via their networks. It turns out that the skill required to network into a VC is the same as the skill required to network into a customer, into a supplier, into a distribution partner, into the press, into an executive search firm. And so if a founder can’t navigate a network into a VC firm, it is unlikely that founder has the skills to navigate the other networks required to succeed in building a company." [0] https://stripe.com/blog/marc-andreessen-ama https://stripe.com/blog/marc-andreessen-ama