[Weekend Drop] a16z on Infra #1

<p>See <a href="https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/devtools/a16z-on-infra-companies">my notes here on DX Circle</a>!<br>Audio Source: <a href="https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-1-2iEyBTf5">https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-1-2iEyBTf5</a></p><p><strong>a16z on Infra</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Introductions and Backgrounds</strong> [00:00:00]</p><p><strong>Martin Casado: </strong>[00:00:00] So this is the a16z infrastructure show. This is actually the very first one.  Where are we going to be talking about infrastructure companies investing in them, building them products? It just turns out that we're three GPS at a16z, and we all have a lot of experience in info.</p><p>Like all of our companies were infrastructure companies. We do a lot of infra investing. So the way that we're going to structure this session is first, we're going to introduce, our backgrounds in context of that. Many of you know, us, many of you have worked with us. But we do want to give you a sense our relationship with infrastructure and how we went through it.</p><p>So we'll and we each go through our own kind of bios that way and I'll orchestrate that. Okay. Th then we're going to talk about why infrastructure is different. This isn't B2B, this is an enterprise, this isn't vertical SAS. It's specifically infrastructure. And it's my it's my favorite topic and my favorite area.</p><p>So we'll go through that. We've got a lot of great questions on Twitter, and so we're going to try and get through those. And then if we still have time, then we'll open up to questions. Uh, for everybody else. So that's rough, we plan to have this every two weeks and we want to cover everything as things go, we want to cover category creation and we want to cover open-source and we want to cover the shifts and go to market and the cloud and investing and everything else.</p><p>So we're going to go ahead and start with our intros and just, yeah, very quickly. So for the, if you don't know, so I'm Martine I'm a GP