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Ben Horowitz on a Great Product (opens the original)
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In The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014), Ben Horowitz writes that the primary thing a technology startup must do is build a product at least ten times better at something than the prevailing way of doing it, and that two or three times better won’t get people to switch fast enough or in large enough numbers to matter. Video Source: lecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, 2009. a16z andreessen horowitz
AI, Infrastructure, and the Next Investment Cycle (opens the original)
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a16z’s David George, Sarah Wang, Alex Immerman, and Santiago Rodriguez unpack 25 key charts from the latest State of Markets presentation, from the scale of the AI infrastructure buildout to what adoption looks like inside companies today. They examine why rising markets have so far been supported by earnings rather than multiple expansion, why hyperscaler CapEx is approaching $1 trillion annually, and why demand for compute continues to outrun supply. They also look at the downstream effects of
We Tested the New Wave of Personal AI Agents (opens the original)
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a16z General Partner Anish Acharya sits down with Assistant Benchmark creator David Pawlan to unpack the sudden explosion of personal AI agents and what it will take for one to become part of everyday life. David has been testing dozens of assistants across real-world tasks, from managing email and booking travel to handling financial admin. They discuss why the most useful agents may become increasingly invisible, proactively checking you into flights, finding refunds, filing reimbursements, or
How Jev Turns AI Into Software That Gets Things Done (opens the original)
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a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado sit down with TypeSafe AI founder Diogo Almeida to ask a simple question: AI has become remarkably capable, so where is all the automation? Diogo argues that coding agents may help us write software faster, but the software they produce still largely works the way software always has. TypeSafe is taking a different approach with Jev: putting intelligence inside software itself, so developers can build programs that reason about intent and make probabilistic
The Next Chapter of AI Is Inside Our Software (opens the original)
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Erik Torenberg sits down with Box CEO Aaron Levie, and a16z’s Martin Casado, and Steven Sinofsky to debate how the AI industry should think about safety, security, and regulation as increasingly capable agents move into the real world. They argue that much of today’s conversation is happening before we have clearly defined the risks we’re trying to regulate. Drawing on earlier waves of computing, from computer viruses and the early internet to aviation and automobiles, they ask what AI can learn
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