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A16Z BLOGS ARE JUST GLORIFIED MARKETING

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a16z blog posts are subtle marketing for its portfolio companies rather than offering impartial overviews of technology landscapes. This author notes how an a16z post on LLM architectures omitted competing open-source vector database solutions in favor of one it funded. This pattern extends to other a16z publications and even its voting practices with crypto companies.