A16Zs opinion is worthless to me, they know very little about the market. Furthermore, they're notorious for having a lot of "partners".

Depends on the partner, Peter Levine is a pretty damn good picker (supported us series A to IPO). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Levine

Their whole game is just pump and dump

Pretty worthless take posting an ad-hominem attack instead of addressing the actual content of the article/ statement.

Has everyone forgotten about when they pumped absurd crypto scams like NFTs