a16z's first employee Scott Kupor on how Michael Ovitz's CAA playbook became the model for a16z: "When you would go show up for a pitch at CAA in 1990 where I think they had like 90% market share, they would sit around a table, and Michael would introduce you as Robert Redford and say, 'Look, meet my colleague who does nothing other than radio deals. Here's my expert in radio deals. Here's my expert in international. Here's my expert in books.'" "And we basically took the same model to the VC world. The VC world was a lot like that. You had a one-to-one relationship with John Doerr, who was fantastic at what he did." "As the domains grew, the expertise needed just continued to grow." "Let's hire GPs who are functional domain experts in the particular areas of investing they want, and then let's surround them with this phalanx of somebody who all they do all day long is manage CFO relationships, or CEO relationships, or VPs of engineering, somebody who all they do is government relations, or business development." @skupor @davidsenra