a16z GP Angela Strange on how Borderless Founders accelerate preferential attachment through talent and customer power laws: "I would argue Borderless Founders have more levers at their disposal." "So if you start with talent, this is the fiercest talent market I've seen in my career as an investor, and also as an operator." "We have an AI insurance company in Brazil, and so you might think, 'Oh, the best talent is at the top most well-known universities there.' Actually, for AI talent, it's at a university that you haven't heard of." "And so if you are a company that gets 10 incredibly smart people really early, the 11th that you might be trying to recruit from the US that has 100 other offers meets your team, is like, 'Holy shit, how do they get people that are that good there?' And that starts the talent flywheel." "On the customer side, anytime you want to land a large customer, the first question they're going to ask is, 'Who else is using you that's in my industry at my size?'" "Nobody wants to be the first bank or the first insurance company. But via Borderless Founder network, you can get a large bank and a large insurance company in another country much more quickly." @astrange @VirtualElena