[robterrin]

"[Andreessen Horowitz] aims to flip the venture industry on its head by acting more like a talent agency - specifically Creative Artists Agency, which became so prominent in Hollywood that it was hard to do deals without them being involved."

https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/01/21/why-andreess...

This being Hacker News and all, I thought the idea that a16z is modeled on CAA would have come up already.

[icelancer]

Who is Michael Ovitz is a great read on the formation of CAA and (what was then) the new world of packaging. This has been going on for decades.