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a16z's Martin Casado on billion-dollar exits: nobody beats Zuckerberg at poker.

Name: a16z's Martin Casado on billion-dollar exits: nobody beats Zuckerberg at poker.
Uploaded: 2026-11-06T16:17:47.000Z
Channel: Guillermo Flor
Description: a16z's Martin Casado on billion-dollar exits: nobody beats Zuckerberg at poker. He's been on the cap table of Cursor ($60B), World Labs ($8.2B) and OpenRouter ($7.5B). His rules for billion-dollar exits: 1. The founders and buyers always share the same vision (Lisa Su and Fei-Fei Li, Elon and…

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a16z's Martin Casado on billion-dollar exits: nobody beats Zuckerberg at poker. He's been on the cap table of Cursor ($60B), World Labs ($8.2B) and OpenRouter ($7.5B). His rules for billion-dollar exits: 1. The founders and buyers always share the same vision (Lisa Su and Fei-Fei Li, Elon and Michael Truell, Patrick Collison and Alex Atallah) 2. The buyer is buying an option on a huge market. Show them the path 3. Don't run games or fake auctions with the most sophisticated people on the planet 4. Never leak the deal. OpenRouter leaked constantly, World Labs never did 5. He's seen deals thi

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