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Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz have shot their reputations to hell and gone: they will have increased difficulty in finding deals and the companies they fu
by MaysonL 15y ago
Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz have shot their reputations to hell and gone: they will have increased difficulty in finding deals and the companies they fund will have harder times finding staff. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
- chalst 15y agoSilver Lake won't care. PE firms are used to being called locusts, pump and dump schemers, or worse, and they don't need to be liked to do what they do. Andreessen Horowitz will, though, not be happy about what happens to their reputation in Silicon Valley.
- suking 15y agoA.H. will probably just blame it all on Silver Lake - I believe A.H. was quite the minority shareholder anyways.
- raganwald 15y agoEven so, when tech companies are hiring, one of the things they do is trot out the list of investors to establish their credibility. The salient question is whether potential hires will (a) Forget all about this, (b) Remember it and blame Silver Lake, or (c) remember it vaguely and think A.H. was involved? I have no idea what the outcome will be, but I'm guessing that (b) is way less likely than (a) or (c).
- thisisfmu 15y agoAs a founder I disagree. The decision for or against a VC is not made by employees and if anything a16z protected the interests of major shareholders over job hopping opportunists and non-performing executives. I would expect savvy employees to negotiate their compensation related agreements more carefully when these firms are involved in the future, however.