In mid‑October 2026 I posted on LinkedIn about major shifts in VC‑backed recruitment and the fallout from the Grace Hopper Conference cancellation, drawing on my own experience speaking at GHC 2018.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has laid off the majority of the 34‑person recruitment team that helps their startups find talent, Axios reports.
Recruitment is not the highest leverage value add a VC brings in today.
My panelmates and I have all changed jobs. We are now: senior director in AI at Nvidia, engineering manager at Google AI, applied AI at OpenAI, advising F500 companies in AI (me), and building cool products out of at an AI studio.