Why a16z’s investment into Flow isn’t relevant to your business, and how to get money for YOUR company.

Diane Prince
7 min readAug 19, 2022

I get it. Everyone’s annoyed by a16z’s investment in Flow, founded by Adam Neumann. I am too. But the reality is that the vast majority of startup companies don’t receive VC funding.

This article briefly explains the a16z Flow deal, why people are upset about it, and what founders can do to raise money for their own startup without worrying about what happens in the land of the Harvard grads and the Unicorns.

If you’re not up to…

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Diane Prince

I built an 8 figure business and sold it to a public company. Now I coach startups through their growth pains so they can scale successfully too