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Interesting video.

Brian Goetz mentioned that Sequoia built a tool they called "Early Bird" to help them keep track of messaging apps that show lots of traction in non-US app stores which was how they knew they really needed to get a Whatsapp deal, at any cost.

This is interesting; I've never come across job postings from VCs for their tooling/business line application development needs, but surely these roles must exist.

Yes, those roles do exist among top and aspiring top tier VCs, but VC being a people-oriented business means that Sequioa and other top tier VCs like a16z and YC [0] who build their own tools in-house should have no problem assembling a talented team of 1-3 engineers to write software by just reaching out to their network.

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/investor-day-software/

That's like something out of SV (HBO's show).

Great video.