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Published · transcript-backedSarah Wang: belief
19 Feb 2026 Latent Space Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
“Total. And I think, you know, stuff like BD for example, you wouldn’t usually need BD when you were seed stage trying to get market biz Devrel.”
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…what is growth these days? You know, you don’t wake up if it’s less than a billion or like, it’s, it’s actually, it’s actually very like, like no, it’s a very interesting time in investing because like, you know, take like the character around, right? These tend to be like pre monetization, but the dollars are large enough that you need to have a larger fund and the analysis. You know, because you’ve got lots of users. ‘cause this stuff has such high demand requires, you know, more of a number sophistication. And so most of these deals, whether it’s US or other firms on these large model companies, are like this hybrid between venture growth. Yeah. Total. And I think, you know, stuff like BD for example, you wouldn’t usually need BD when you were seed stage trying to get market biz Devrel. Biz Devrel, exactly. Okay. But like now, sorry, I’m, I’m not familiar. What, what, what does biz Devrel mean for a venture fund? Because I know what biz Devrel means for a company.…
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