Definitely. It&#x27;s one of the best reasons to pursue the famous venture capital firms. John Doerr has a lot of important people&#x27;s phone numbers, and they will take his call (with the same obviously being true about maybe two dozen other famous investors). It&#x27;s why Dropbox put Condoleezza Rice on its board. It&#x27;s why Gilead had Donald Rumsfeld as its Chairman. It&#x27;s why Theranos has an all-star line-up on its board.<p>Business is, always has been, and always will be, heavily about networks. You can do it without them, it&#x27;s just drastically harder.