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first wave of non-technical founders who learned to code from AI are now starting companies. their technical ceiling is much lower but their iteration speed is 10x. (or infinity if you consider the...
"we pitched investors when it was just a drawing on a napkin" Think we'll be hearing this a lot less if you can draw it on a napkin, you can prompt it into existence. No excuse to be pre-product ...
Before: move to SF. have an idea. look for a tech cofounder. build a deck in the meantime. Months pass... After: codex/claude in one window, X in the other. Build demo. Make a video of the demo. A...
tech podcasts are def the best source of insights into the industry rn. Long form, detailed, with room to debate and go deep. Perfect density for a listen while out on a walk, w a video version if ...
the "AI wrapper" critique assumes the wrapper is the easy part But being the wrapper also includes figuring out: - getting distribution without paying infinite CAC - creating an amazing UX that's ...
the 9-figure acquisitions of The Free Press and TBPN tells you that: - yes, most media properties are overvalued and sinking - but also, some are way way undervalued bullish on the next gen
I wanna claude like this. Feet up on the desk, custom vibe code walkie talkie. So many style points via bharms27/reddit
everyone's talking about AI replacing middle managers but the real unlock for me would be for AI to: - do my email - replace the need for all my weekly meetings and 1:1s - make hiring loops more ef...
reminder it only took 50 people at Craigslist to disrupt an entire industryβs economics But also it takes less than that to start up platforms like uber, eBay, doordash, etc that can provide new i...
everyone's talking about AI replacing middle managers but the real unlock for me would be for AI to: - do my email - replace the need for all my weekly meetings and 1:1s - make hiring loops more ef...
globalization in 2026: American models, Korean memory, Taiwanese silicon, Chinese competition, Middle Eastern capital, European regulation π and soon- orbital compute
2005: growth teams optimized funnels 2015: growth teams optimized loops 2026: growth teams optimize agents
how to tell the difference between AI-native products versus when AI is bolted on after the fact... fake AI products: - main AI feature is an AI button with sparkle icons - chat pane where you can...
consumer AI wonβt be won by wrapping the smartest model - instead I'm convinced it'll have the following chracteristics: - AI native functionality reinvents the UX enough to move the needle - deliv...
itβs easy to hate AI content but do you have the courage to hate your friendβs startup blog
what people call "ai slop" is just AI generated content that's not good enough yet
for AI-native consumer apps to be truly ubiquitous we need: ARPU > Average Inference Cost Per User. How far away are we from that? Ideally AI native apps can hit APIs on every screen yet also pay...
come work with me on the a16z speedrun team for a new initiative called the Alpha Fellowship -- details below: -- we're hiring a Marketing Partner for Alpha! Alpha is our new fellowship program by...
do agents dream of latent sheep?
Founder-Led Coding: Something that I think weβre about to see pretty often with the massive increase of entrepreneurial but non-technical founders who can use AI code gen to build their v1 products...
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