I happen to think that because the leverage is greater, the reward for hiring highly skilled & talented engineers is much greater than it ever was.

All the products mentioned were functionally simple and I like billyhoffman's explanation of why the low functionality/large audience products don't represent the majority of the industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109434

I'm trying to understand how Sam Gerstenzang becomes a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and I can't figure it out.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-gerstenzang

I don't want to ad hominem, I'm just a bit puzzled. It seems like he was an engineer for about 12 months. Anyone here know him?