#  @a16z a16z a16z has been making significant investments and announcements in the AI and technology spaces. The firm has invested in companies like Hedra Labs, which is working on AI character animation for video. a16z has also been highlighting the importance of trust and reliability in AI systems, as well as the rise of "Generative Engine Optimization" (GEO) as a new playbook for brand visibility. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +46% - [--] Month [----------] +82% - [--] Months [----------] +396% - [--] Year [-----------] +833% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] -1.50% - [--] Month [---] +87% - [--] Months [---] +60% - [--] Year [-----] +91% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.40% - [--] Month [-------] +1.60% - [--] Months [-------] +7.40% - [--] Year [-------] +13% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) #1 [finance](/list/finance) 13.38% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 9.86% [stocks](/list/stocks) 7.75% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 4.93% [countries](/list/countries) 4.93% [financial services](/list/financial-services) #1827 [social networks](/list/social-networks) 1.41% [nba](/list/nba) 0.7% [events](/list/events) 0.7% **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) #2785, [ceo](/topic/ceo) #760, [ben](/topic/ben) #2988, [the world](/topic/the-world) 10.56%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 10.56%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 7.75%, [the most](/topic/the-most) #2853, [future](/topic/future) #1080, [culture](/topic/culture) 5.63%, [environment](/topic/environment) #867 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@bhorowitz](/creator/undefined) [@tocelot](/creator/undefined) [@aiktp_com](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@billcrosby](/creator/undefined) [@eriktorenberg](/creator/undefined) [@jason_a_scharf](/creator/undefined) [@davidgeorge83](/creator/undefined) [@dhaber](/creator/undefined) [@balajis](/creator/undefined) [@lennysan](/creator/undefined) [@mcrypto2024_](/creator/undefined) [@ensxbt](/creator/undefined) [@davidsolomon](/creator/undefined) [@edwardkens50830](/creator/undefined) [@martincasado](/creator/undefined) [@investlikebest](/creator/undefined) [@patrickoshag](/creator/undefined) [@harrystebbings](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD)](/topic/$hood) [Movement (MOVE)](/topic/move-movement) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours ""We exist in an environment that systematically outputs unhealthy people." @truemed CEO Justin Mares joins a16z's Erik Torenberg to trace the roots of America's chronic disease crisis and what it would take to fix it: - How $100 billion is subsidizing the ingredients making us sick - The case against universal Ozempic - The many chemical compounds allowed in the US but banned in Europe - Why peptides could be "exceptionally disruptive" to pharma - The Ray Peat view: more sugar more metabolism more energy 00:00 Introduction 0:44 The environment that makes us sick 04:19 What went wrong in the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019107698554638357) 2026-02-04T17:56Z 934.4K followers, 66.3K engagements "Waymo is eating into rideshare. More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019467567010877800) 2026-02-05T17:46Z 934.4K followers, 75.8K engagements "Worldwide app revenues now exceed game revenues. More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019484729234583587) 2026-02-05T18:54Z 934.4K followers, 141.5K engagements ".@pmarca says the winner of the US-China AI race could dictate what all [--] billion people on Earth use but open source introduces a third possibility: "The stakes are basically: what is the world going to run on" "In the long run somebody's gonna win. And the world will either be running on American AI or be running on Chinese AI." "The open source thing is super fascinating because it throws a wrench into all of this. It raises a third possibility that neither the US nor China are going to be the platform it may just be open source." Marc Andreessen with @jpatel41 at Cisco AI Summit" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021320926202327206) 2026-02-10T20:30Z 934.4K followers, 101.3K engagements "JUST IN: US adults "optimism" hits record low JUST IN: US adults "optimism" hits record low" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021373203504066677) 2026-02-10T23:58Z 934.4K followers, 194.2K engagements "We all start somewhere https://t.co/hww1DbA5q4 https://t.co/hww1DbA5q4" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019154026668126322) 2026-02-04T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 458.8K engagements "Earvin "Magic" Johnson and a16z's Chris Lyons sat down for a conversation on Magic's [--] year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman including what Magic learned from Michael Ovitz Magic's investments in Silicon Valley and sports why athletes should take equity over endorsements and more. 00:00 Introduction 05:09 How Michael Ovitz became Magic's first business mentor 07:42 The art of deal making and building a Rolodex 17:30 Magic's first Silicon Valley investment: Skydio 27:00 Building a team: Get people smarter than you 29:48 The one that got away: Nike stock in [----] 37:36 Why AI is" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021621100044804365) 2026-02-11T16:23Z 934.4K followers, 241.5K engagements "Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming. It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English. You can imagine kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software and you can edit that at a high level. It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code it'll instead be something that's much terser and easier to understand and easier to navigate. Source: @mntruell (CEO @cursor_ai) with" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1985810648903926216) 2025-11-04T20:45Z 933.6K followers, 813.7K engagements "Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on AI Building in Fintech and Contrarian Bets Robinhood broke from the consensus: zero commissions when competitors charged $10 mobile-first when the expectation was desktop and bold branding in response to disillusionment with the financial system. CEO Vlad Tenev sat down with a16z General Partners Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of how he built @RobinhoodApp. They cover the origin of fintech as a category how Robinhood survived crises the societal role of financial asset ownership and more. 00:00 Introduction 10:08 Why Not Make It Free 27:00" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991906400964936134) 2025-11-21T16:27Z 933K followers, 97.9K engagements "Balaji Srinivasan on the coming verification gap in an AI world. AI is going to create massive numbers of jobs in proctoring and verification because its so good at faking things. AI makes everything fake and crypto makes it real again. @balajis" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1994554143764353103) 2025-11-28T23:48Z 933.8K followers, 432.3K engagements "How Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros changes the media company pecking order More charts of the week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-if-you-cant-join https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-if-you-cant-join" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1997089868196073955) 2025-12-05T23:45Z 930.7K followers, 237K engagements "San Fransiscans love starting big companies: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-agents-start-to https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-agents-start-to" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2002086724210733490) 2025-12-19T18:40Z 931.6K followers, 115.3K engagements "Marc Andreessen on drive: @pmarca" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2003872564331061297) 2025-12-24T16:57Z 931.2K followers, 89.8K engagements "ICYMI: Packy McCormick's [-----] word deep dive on a16z a16z is a Firm. It is a business a company. It is built with the goal to scale and to improve with scale. There are many characteristics of a Firm that I believe do not apply to a traditional Fund and we will cover them. I think this distinction solves one of the oddest things about venture capitals self-image: that venture capital is an industry that sells the worlds most scalable product (money) to its most scalable companies (technology startups) but must not itself scale. This distinction - Firm Fund - comes from a16z GP David Haber" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2010754429230989408) 2026-01-12T16:43Z 931.4K followers, 241.1K engagements "We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the culture document that says you'll adhere to this culture. Our whole point is if you want to do something larger than yourself and make the world a better place we are a hundred percent for it. @bhorowitz @packyM In Packy McCormick's recent deep dive on a16z he writes What a16z aims to do is provide legitimacy and power for startups. a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2011873668054597708) 2026-01-15T18:50Z 931.6K followers, 393K engagements "The AI era of apps is here. In this discussion with a16z Apps Fund GPs Alex Rampell David Haber and Anish Acharya they break down: - How AI is driving explosive product growth - The new product categories that couldn't exist before AI - Why AI-native startups should look for greenfield opportunities with unserved customers instead of competing with large incumbents - Why moats still matter - How software is eating labor 00:00 Introduction 02:17 AI's role in enterprise and consumer applications 05:03 Emerging AI trends and investment strategies 08:43 Traditional software going AI-native 14:40" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2013317384678125791) 2026-01-19T18:27Z 931.3K followers, 88.2K engagements "Were excited to announce that were leading a $150M seed round for Inferact. @inferact is a new startup led by the maintainers of the vLLM project including Simon Mo Woosuk Kwon Kaichao You and Roger Wang. vLLM is the leading open source inference engine and one of the biggest open source projects of any kind and is used in production by companies like Meta Google Character AI and many others. Inferact supports the vLLM project through dedicated financial and developer resources and will build what they see as the next generation commercial inference engine. For a16z infra investing in the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2014387286788698122) 2026-01-22T17:18Z 931.4K followers, 198.6K engagements "ChatGPT reached [---] billion searches [---] times faster than Google. a16z GP David George: AI is built on the back of the internet and cloud computing. And because of that it allows for immediate global distribution. Because of the nature of this technology you don't have to deliver a new hardware product. And because we have global internet buildout and because we have cloud computing the whole world can access this. @DavidGeorge83 AI is scaling faster than anyone expected. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha they cover: - Why AI can capture larger markets than previous" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2015887192980390203) 2026-01-26T20:38Z 930.3K followers, 60.7K engagements "Saronic CEO Dino Mavrookass best advice for new founders: Don't ask necessarily what the world needs but ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people that have come alive. Once you build conviction send it. Pull on those threads understand the big impacts you wanna have and then just go ask the questions. I tell this story about going on Capitol Hill with this PowerPoint slide of an electric surfboard. I was just waiting for somebody to just tell me I'm an idiot. You have to be willing to go out put yourself out there and then hear the feedback and listen to the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016201128778858577) 2026-01-27T17:26Z 931K followers, 31.5K engagements "Revenue growth for outlier AI companies is astronomical" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016233603311788305) 2026-01-27T19:35Z 931.4K followers, 21.7K engagements "230 million people around the world are using ChatGPT for health related questions each week. a16z's Jay Rughani on why people are turning to AI for health: The healthcare system that we have today in the US is drastically supply constrained. A hundred million people plus dont have access to a primary care doc. All that friction is frustrating and the demand exhaust shoots off somewhere. People want agency so that agencys gonna go somewhere. @JayRughani @nikillinit Healthcare is off to a wild start in [----]. On the @a16z pod I riffed with America's favorite healthcare comedian Nikhil Krishnan" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016280629659500716) 2026-01-27T22:42Z 931.2K followers, 48.9K engagements "Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis on choosing between being a founder and a VC: Being a VC is a cerebral job. And fundamentally what a VC does is you buy and sell stock. As a founder you have to love product and you have to love team building. You have to figure out if youre trying to make this decision 'should I be a VC or should I be a founder' Which one of those things resonates with you more @AppliedInt CEO @qasar at @SlushHQ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016316235328454799 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016316235328454799" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016316235328454799) 2026-01-28T01:03Z 931.5K followers, 51K engagements "Unicorns are real" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016534262565187764) 2026-01-28T15:30Z 931.2K followers, 15K engagements "The first video on the web was a coffee pot. a16z GP Martin Casado: The reality is that video of a coffee pot in no small way became Netflix. We all make fun of the excitement around what seem like trivial things. We see a lot of silly use cases and tend to think of them like Oh this is silly stuff and what are the enterprise use cases but this is what the future always looks like. @martin_casado on WSJ's Bold Names podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016598484728881653 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016598484728881653" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016598484728881653) 2026-01-28T19:45Z 931.3K followers, 17K engagements "Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch on why AGI is too simple of a concept: Theres no such thing as one system that is going to be solving all of the problems of the world. Its never going to exist. Just like you don't have any human that is able to solve every task in the world you of course have to have some level of specialization to actually solve problems. We are back from magical thinking to system thinking. In real life enterprises are just complex systems. You cant solve that with a single abstraction which is AGI. @arthurmensch on @BigTechPod https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016609854350381294" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016609854350381294) 2026-01-28T20:30Z 931.3K followers, 37.7K engagements "a16z GP Martin Casado on what people get wrong about bubbles: "The question is not 'Are we overinvesting relative to short-term demand'" "The question is are we overinvesting relative to long-term demand And if so do we have the economic reserves to stop some sort of systemic unraveling" The fundamentals are so different and so much better this time than they were during the late 90s." Remember we overvalued things in mobile. We overvalued things during the early cloud boom. We overvalued things during the early SaaS boom. Does this mean theres gonna be systemic collapse I see absolutely zero" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016617478013800749) 2026-01-28T21:00Z 931.2K followers, 19.9K engagements ""People want more agency in their healthcare." Out-of-Pocket founder Nikhil Krishnan: "The existing healthcare system really wants to create standardized care. and make medicine good at the median level for everyone." "But. people want more agency in their healthcare." "I think this is one of the reasons why protocols are so popular right now like Huberman protocols and Peter Attia protocols." "The core thing of what these protocols are saying is eat well sleep well. The normal advice. but it gives people what seems like a task list." "Whether or not theyre doing it is sort of irrelevant but" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016889265964404799) 2026-01-29T15:00Z 932.5K followers, 14.9K engagements "AI can capture much larger markets than traditional software" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016896642461692005) 2026-01-29T15:30Z 933.8K followers, 125.7K engagements "We literally with AI have a technology that transfers sand into thought. Marc Andreessen on why AI is the philosophers stone: The early scientists including Isaac Newton were super obsessed with this concept of alchemy. Alchemy was the transmutation of lead into gold. Which meant the transmutation of something that was very common which was lead into something that was very rare and valuable which was gold. The most common thing in the world which is sand converted into the most rare thing in the world which is thought. And so AI is the philosophers stone. @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016955748073550118) 2026-01-29T19:24Z 931.4K followers, 185K engagements "What is the archetype Palantir looks for in forward deployed engineers a16z's Erin Price-Wright asked Palantir Chief Architect Akshay Krishnaswamy: "One is some sort of interesting cross-functional persona. Someone was a physicist but now wants to do this." "Theres a little bit of 'I need to prove to myself to the world that this outcome should happen and also that I can do it.'" "It's a bit of a chip on the shoulder. It's a bit of a thumos in them." @hyperindexed @espricewright The hottest role in tech the forward-deployed engineer was "the ugliest duckling" for a decade. In this" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016986641362227355) 2026-01-29T21:27Z 931.3K followers, 32.3K engagements "Marc Andreessen: "The job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task." "A job is a bundle of tasks." Everybody wants to talk about job loss but really what you want to look at is task loss. "As the tasks change enough then thats when the jobs change." "Ten years from now is your job title coder or coder-designer-product manager or is it just I build products or is it just I tell the AI how to build products. Whatever that job is called its going to be incredibly important because the people doing that job are" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2017002539410247911) 2026-01-29T22:30Z 931.8K followers, 294K engagements "We need AI to work. Marc Andreessen on why AI is arriving at a moment of economic and demographic pressure: "Productivity growth for the last [--] years has actually been very low not very high." "So statistically in the US in the west technology progress in the economy . has actually slowed way down." "Many countries around the world . are actually going to depopulate over the next century." "We actually need AI to work in order to get productivity growth up. We actually need AI to work because were going to need machines to do all the jobs that were not going to have people to do." @pmarca on" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2017331531392659765) 2026-01-30T20:18Z 930.9K followers, 31.3K engagements "Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann on software development going from being a job to being a baseline skill: "Today youre either a developer or not." "I think software development will just be a skill." "Just like with writing there will still be professional writers but all of us also have to know how to write as part of our jobs." "There'll still be some expert developers. but itll be the minority." @biilmann @Netlify @martin_casado https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017348822641656301 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017348822641656301" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2017348822641656301) 2026-01-30T21:26Z 933.1K followers, 39.8K engagements "Leaders gainers and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms race By @sarahdingwang @justin_kahl and @shangdaxu Who is the actual king of enterprise AI The market is too dynamic to crown a single durable winner. But the data does reveal clear leaders fast gainers and a few outcomes that run counter to popular narratives. Read the full piece based on our third annual CIO survey of [---] companies in the Global 2000: https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winners NARRATIVE VIOLATION: despite all the hand wringing yes OpenAI still has the largest adoption and wallet share in" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2017359982078165372) 2026-01-30T22:11Z 930.9K followers, 31.7K engagements "Ben Horowitz: History says the AI job-loss panic is misguided. "Weve been automating things since the agricultural days. In those days I think [--] or 96% of all jobs in the US were agriculture. Almost all of those jobs have been eliminated. And the jobs we have nowthe people doing agriculture wouldnt even consider them jobs." "The idea that we could imagine all the jobs that are going to come sitting here that AI is going to enable I think is low." "I think the need for more creativity jobs is going to go way up." "ChatGPT was in [----]. Andwheres all the job destruction Why hasnt it happened" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018787094899183716) 2026-02-03T20:42Z 933.7K followers, 51.9K engagements "Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on the open question of agentic investing: "Models work on the facts that are available." "Sometimes the biggest changes in the way you have to think about investing in a portfolio comes from things that are completely new and unexpected." "It can't be something from the past." "There are a handful of people who have so outperformed as investors over a long period of time but. generally speaking people underperform." "And so if the models are based on the information that the people are underperforming all have it's going to be interesting to see whether" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018791698072256580) 2026-02-03T21:00Z 933.6K followers, 62.7K engagements "Ben Horowitz: AI is the greatest equalizer of opportunity weve ever seen. "Starting from day one it was completely democratized. The AI that anybody gets access to is a very powerful AI. Anybody with a phoneand now most people in the world at this point have smartphonescan get superintelligence in their phone." "Every child can have a super-advanced amazing tutor/teacher. Great education is accessible to all now." All systems end up with a lot of inequality but you can try systematically to give everybody an opportunity. I think AI does a really good job of that. Source: @bhorowitz on" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019208046808035645) 2026-02-05T00:34Z 933.6K followers, 35.7K engagements "RT @a16zcrypto: There are a lot of debates around ads access and open vs. closed happening right now. But the question is *who* is in" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019574660741075147) 2026-02-06T00:51Z 931.5K followers, [--] engagements "RT @matiii: The ElevenLabs documentary from our amazing partners at @a16z. A deeper look at our company culture and what we're building" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019845642085101586) 2026-02-06T18:48Z 931.7K followers, [--] engagements "RT @cdixon: http://x.com/i/article/2019830030931750923 http://x.com/i/article/2019830030931750923" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019942498546978879) 2026-02-07T01:13Z 932.5K followers, [---] engagements "Northwood Space CEO Bridgit Mendler's advice to founders: "Be more ambitious than you think you should." "You'd be surprised how quickly things change and how quickly things develop." "If you're setting out to use your precious time in your life building something build something big." "Choose something meaningful. It's going to take up so much time and so much of your life energy to build. Do something you care about." @bridgitmendler @NorthwoodSpace Today Northwood has raised $100M in Series B funding led by @WashingHarbour and co-led by @a16z to support a simple objective take space" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016578165217644816) 2026-01-28T18:24Z 934.4K followers, 1.1M engagements "Balaji Srinivasan proposes a western version of the special economic zone where builders can operate at the speed of physics not permits. The special Elon zone or more generally the special founder zone. Its like an essentially uninhibited territory as close to Burning Man as possible Ben Horowitz: I think thats very doable. Theres so many states in the US that would wanna do that. I know Nevada would wanna do that. @balajis and @bhorowitz on Network State podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016904374317105595 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016904374317105595" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016904374317105595) 2026-01-29T16:00Z 934.4K followers, 297.9K engagements "The regulatory landscape is fairly scary right now." Marc Andreessen on AI regulation: "We were headed towards extreme overregulationup to and including possibly full outlawing of the technology which is very spooky." "The action in the US has now shifted to the states. There are now thousands of AI bills and many of them are actually quite scary." "The situation in Europe is quite alarming. There are a number of European countries really trying hard to kneecap American technology." Source: @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022097216324968741" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022097216324968741) 2026-02-12T23:55Z 934.4K followers, 38K engagements "New tech creates new jobs Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022355623661482220) 2026-02-13T17:02Z 934.4K followers, 148.4K engagements ""You can't just think your way into an advantage." Balaji Srinivasan on why AGI may be embodied: "Every drone every self-driving car every humanoid pulls in all that sensory data. They actually can have a world model." "The very Abrahamic western concept of a single AGI that will tell us what to do might have been plausible three years agoI don't think it's really that plausible now." "AGI is gated by the physical world." @balajis on Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022397513396047938 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022397513396047938" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022397513396047938) 2026-02-13T19:48Z 934.4K followers, 33.1K engagements "SF is back. Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022408297245216988) 2026-02-13T20:31Z 934.4K followers, 241.2K engagements "Why are hyperlinks blue" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1972027557685141716) 2025-09-27T19:56Z 934.4K followers, 7.7M engagements "AI Capex is massive but sustainable. Full State of Markets deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQXsMMv5ZCWm77za7oXJcz1X-Th5Mz15g5nYBxbUjnomStVcjn8lXPjE5LzAlvc_hg4yHKgwASWLo5a/pub AI is seeing faster growth than any previous technology cycle. A few things stand out: - Unicorns are real: The top decile unicorns are growing revenue 6x faster than the median - Power laws: The definition of "large-cap" has tripled since [----] and incumbents are being https://t.co/bGP7hAf6gj" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2014412240720691351) 2026-01-22T18:57Z 934.4K followers, 104.6K engagements "Vibe coding has unleashed a torrent of new iOS apps in the app store. After basically zero growth for the past three years new app releases surged 60% yoy in December (and 24% on a trailing twelve month basis). Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-the-almighty-consumer https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-the-almighty-consumer" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2014717695166710269) 2026-01-23T15:11Z 934.4K followers, 974.3K engagements ""Clippy is finally vindicated." Balaji Srinivasan: "You actually want to put faces on your AI avatars on your AI agents." "The reason they're intuitive to a hundred million people is they're used to chatting with another human on the other side." "They're already modeling the chat box as being a human-like response." "But when it's outside of that chat box environment and it's suggesting on the screen you kind of want a face to pop up." @balajis on The Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019837134904127773 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019837134904127773" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019837134904127773) 2026-02-06T18:14Z 934.4K followers, 57.9K engagements "How people use ChatGPT https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020965979413692917) 2026-02-09T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 285.4K engagements "We're thrilled to lead Shizuku AI's seed round. In January [----] while still completing his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley Akio Kodaira launched an AI VTuber named Shizuku on YouTube. He ran dozens of streams building a community of thousands of followers who tuned in to talk with an AI character that actually felt present. This project is now something much bigger: @ShizukuAILabs is building an AI lab in Japan dedicated to developing AI companions and characterscombining cutting-edge research with the artistic sensibility that has made Japanese character design beloved worldwide. With experience" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021021980871491943) 2026-02-10T00:42Z 934.4K followers, 477.5K engagements "Sports teams are among the most durable compounding assets in America. Magic Johnson on why he invests in sports: "When we bought the Dodgers for $2.2 billion everybody said we overpaid. Now its $8 billion." "Dr. Buss bought the Lakers for $65 million. They just sold for $10 billion." "Nobodys ever going to stop watching sports in America." @MagicJohnson with a16z GP @ChrisLyons Earvin "Magic" Johnson and a16z's Chris Lyons sat down for a conversation on Magic's [--] year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman including what Magic learned from Michael Ovitz Magic's investments in" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021643885177659612) 2026-02-11T17:53Z 934.4K followers, 161K engagements "Marc Andreessen: "Productivity growth is about to go through the roof." "Productivity growth for the last [----] years has been basically at historical lows. Fundamentally I think it's because we decided other things are more important." "We decided we didn't want nuclear power. We decided we didn't want a space program. We decided we didn't want cars that went faster than 55." "What we got in the last [--] years was hyper-acceleration in very specificallychips and software. And then essentially stagnation in everything else." "If either the AI optimists are correct or the AI doomsayers are" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021726482071175404) 2026-02-11T23:22Z 934.4K followers, 76K engagements "Anish Acharya says the #1 edge for founders and investors today is relentlessly trying every new AI model and product yourself. "Being native in this product cycle just means waking up every day and being like if there's three new models today I'm going to try three new modelsI'm actually going to make something." "Holding yourself to an incredibly high standard of trying everything just gives you so much information and intuition. I think it's non-negotiable for founders and I think it's incredibly important for investors as well." Source: @illscience on 20VC with @HarryStebbings" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022007417006088560) 2026-02-12T17:58Z 934.4K followers, 17.4K engagements "Marc Andreessen on his experience using AI as a doctor: "I let Dr. GPT walk me through basically every stage of food poisoning. It's the most amazing endlessly patient infinitely knowledgeable endlessly caring doctor." @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022103523077632091) 2026-02-13T00:20Z 934.4K followers, 37.8K engagements "Katherine Boyle: "I think @elonmusk's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers to work with their hands again." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022416648544882995) 2026-02-13T21:04Z 934.4K followers, 163.2K engagements "SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT Perplexity and Claude Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm it's about being cited by it. The brands that win in GEO won't just appear in AI responses. They'll shape them. Must-read from @zachcohen25 and @seema_amble on the future of search marketing and performance in the LLM era. https://bit.ly/3SpGDRO https://bit.ly/3SpGDRO" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1927766844062011834) 2025-05-28T16:40Z 934.4K followers, 651.4K engagements "Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on Curing All Disease We sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg co-founders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to discuss their ambitious plan to cure prevent and manage all disease by the end of the century. CZIs Biohub aims to generate vast biological datasets to train new frontier AI models to guide scientists in the lab creating a feedback loop to accelerate the pace of basic science and take us towards a world without disease. 00:00 Introduction 03:42 Building tools to accelerate scientific discovery 07:03 Biohub = Frontier Biology +" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1986486508355002584) 2025-11-06T17:31Z 934.4K followers, 376.7K engagements "The world has massively underestimated how much natural gas the future needs and now AI data centers and LNG exports are competing for supply. So who should get the gas Enjoy part [--] of this doubleheader from Michael Spyker teaching us everything we need to know about the resource powering AI: @ShaleTier7 https://www.a16z.news/p/gas-fired-intelligence-part-2 https://www.a16z.news/p/gas-fired-intelligence-part-2" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991952761412546914) 2025-11-21T19:32Z 934.4K followers, 272.7K engagements "Ben Horowitz: Computing has always needed two pillars machines and networks. AI has the machines but not the network. Crypto is the missing layer giving AI money identity provenance against deepfakes. Source: @bhorowitz at @Columbia_Biz" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1994165982651424906) 2025-11-27T22:06Z 934.4K followers, 184.8K engagements "Announcing a16z Build: A dinner series and community for founders technologists and operators figuring out what they want to build next and who they want to build with. Apply or nominate today: http://build.a16z.com http://build.a16z.com" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1999501079705452995) 2025-12-12T15:26Z 934.4K followers, 585.1K engagements "Ben Horowitz on the importance of culture: "A culture is not a set of ideas its a set of actions." "If you define your culture as a kind of set of ideasintegrity do the right thing we have each others backs or any of these corporate valuesits actually just a bunch of platitudes. It doesnt mean anything. The culture has to be defined in terms of the exact behavior you want that support that idea." "Its the little thingshow responsive are you to your colleagues Whats the SLA on returning a Slack message or an email Do you show up to meetings on time" "We have an idea aboutyou have to respect" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019532127793217870) 2026-02-05T22:02Z 934.4K followers, 38.8K engagements "Why dont trees have eyes Because they dont move. Movement creates the need for perception. That idea is at the heart of why AI needs spatial intelligence and its central to how @drfeifei and @theworldlabs are thinking about the future of AI" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1968346902690517418) 2025-09-17T16:10Z 933.9K followers, 29.3K engagements "David Sacks says the biggest risk of AI was described not by James Cameron in The Terminator but by George Orwell in [----]. I almost feel like the term woke AI is insufficient to explain whats going on because it somehow trivializes it. What were really talking about is 'Orwellian AI.' Were talking about AI that lies to you that distorts an answer that rewrites history in real time to serve a current political agenda of the people who are in power. To me this is the biggest risk of AI. Its not The Terminator its [----]. @DavidSacks David Sacks on Polytheistic AI Better Crypto Regulation Beating" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1985413352349413542) 2025-11-03T18:26Z 933.8K followers, 16.3M engagements "We asked a16z's investors for their takes on the biggest problems builders will tackle in [----]. Here's part [--] of Big Ideas 2026: https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-1 https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-1" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998433730445324715) 2025-12-09T16:45Z 934K followers, 255.1K engagements "Marc Andreessen on why the product is the most important thing for a tech CEO to understand: You better have somebody running the company who really understands those products. In the technology industry thats usually a technologist. The alternate model seems to work better which is the technologist who basically picks up the skills to become a CEO along the way. This is a very difficult challenging thing to do. Nobody ever said it would be easy. @pmarca at Fortune Brainstorm 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=W4KfTEltF2A https://www.youtube.com/watchv=W4KfTEltF2A" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2006017815992799708) 2025-12-30T15:01Z 934.3K followers, 56.1K engagements "In Packy McCormick's recent deep dive on a16z he writes What a16z aims to do is provide legitimacy and power for startups. a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have been building the venture firm to provide entrepreneurs with legitimacy and power for almost two decades. In this conversation they join Packy and a16z GP Erik Torenberg to cover how they did it and the worldview behind a16z including: - How a16z compounds reputation - How the media ecosystem has changed since a16z began & how a16z has adapted - How a16z is structured to put entrepreneurs first and enable them to win -" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2011854313052614863) 2026-01-15T17:33Z 934.3K followers, 571.1K engagements "Bloomberg profiles a16z's infra team: @martin_casado @JenniferHli @BornsteinMatt @RaghuRaghuram https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-19/andreessen-horowitz-makes-a-3-billion-bet-against-the-ai-bubble An unconventional team at Andreessen Horowitz is finding success with a newer fund focused on AI infrastructure https://t.co/3ZpM9i8Nnk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-19/andreessen-horowitz-makes-a-3-billion-bet-against-the-ai-bubble An unconventional team at Andreessen Horowitz is finding success with a newer fund focused on AI infrastructure https://t.co/3ZpM9i8Nnk" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2013329294785946037) 2026-01-19T19:14Z 934K followers, 46K engagements "Charlie Munger's advice to Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen: The key to success is dumb competition. I always say that to people who are building AI companies. What a nightmare. Your competitors are literally AI geniuses. You should find a way to apply AI in some other domain so you're not competing with the smartest people on planet Earth. @Flexport CEO @typesfast on The Knowledge Project Podcast with @shaneparrish https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014052254446457118 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014052254446457118" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2014052254446457118) 2026-01-21T19:07Z 934.3K followers, 798.4K engagements "AI is scaling faster than anyone expected. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha they cover: - Why AI can capture larger markets than previous technologies - The unprecedented scale of the AI infrastructure buildout - The implications of companies staying private longer - The kinds of companies that will find durable value creation from AI and more. 00:00 Introduction 04:21 The market opportunity for AI 26:48 Pricing monetization and cash burn 43:15 Companies staying private longer 51:30 Portfolio composition and construction 57:18 Team culture and collaboration" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2015849097304146112) 2026-01-26T18:07Z 934.1K followers, 106.4K engagements "Ben Horowitz on where AI regulation should actually focus: "The model is a model. It's a mathematical model. It predicts things. It's not a sentient being." "If you ban the technology or infringe people's ability to do mathematics. that has hundred-year implications." "Don't regulate math. Regulate the applications of that math." "If somebody uses AI to break into a bank or make a robot that shoots somebody that's illegal. But the technology itself shouldn't be illegal." @bhorowitz with @DavidSolomon and @dhaber "Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018379436228505726) 2026-02-02T17:42Z 934K followers, 30.2K engagements ""If you're not top tier the best entrepreneurs won't take your money." Ben Horowitz on how a16z thought about being "top tier" differently: "Historically the way you became top tier was reputational." "So the idea we had. was to have a better product. specifically for entrepreneurs." "The venture capital product was great for LPs but mediocre for entrepreneurs. So we designed the firm to really enable a founder to build their own company and run it as CEO." @bhorowitz with @DavidSolomon and @dhaber "Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their $400 billion of" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018391684133085399) 2026-02-02T18:30Z 934.3K followers, 67.1K engagements "Ben Horowitz explains why AI killed the 'Mythical Man Month': "For my whole life in technology there was this thing called the Mythical Man Month: nine women cannot have a baby in a month." "If you're Google you can't just put a thousand software engineers on a product and wipe out a startup because you can only. build that product with seven or eight people. Once they've figured it out they've got that lead." "That's not true with AI. If you have data and you have enough GPUs you can solve almost any problem. It is magic." "You can throw money at the problem. We've never had that in tech."" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018418113952555445) 2026-02-02T20:15Z 933.9K followers, 259.8K engagements "a16z GP David George: "We were the only VC fund that invested in Waymo in early 2020." "It was extraordinary. I mean the project was magic even at the time." "We did demo rides. it could drive smoother than a human. they could do all these really special things that you wouldn't think an autonomous car could do at the time." "But at the time they didn't have a product in the market and I thought the valuation was really high." "Marc and Ben were like 'It's autonomous driving. this is endless market size. This could be the biggest company in consumer technology.'" Source: @DavidGeorge83 with" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018483257759891710) 2026-02-03T00:34Z 934.3K followers, 109.7K engagements "Galadyne is rethinking American missile platforms for scale. American missile production is bottlenecked on cost speed and scalability. For years solid rockets have been the status quo due to a historical need for low complexity. But solid rockets are slow to produce hard to scale and rely on vulnerable supply chains. Theres now a decade of evidence in the commercial space industry proving its possible to produce liquid rockets at scale and manage their complexity with software. @_galadyne is bringing these innovations in liquid rockets to missiles. They intend to deliver a product that can" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018687615072170326) 2026-02-03T14:06Z 934K followers, 40.8K engagements ""It could be the biggest M&A year in history." Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: "M&A and capital raising and IPOs are driven by confidence. And so if you have a tough regulatory environment that is something that affects confidence." "For the last four years whatever the question was the answer was no." "Now whatever the question is. the answer is maybe." @DavidSolomon with @dhaber and @bhorowitz https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018752371766239693) 2026-02-03T18:24Z 934K followers, 28.2K engagements ""It's important to get the right people. It's even more important to repel the wrong people." Palmer Luckey explains the idea behind their "Don't Work for Anduril" recruiting campaign: "When you're doing something early and it's really crazy and new you only get the true believersthe people who are there because they want to be. They believe in what you're doing and they could be making more money elsewhere." "We did a commercial where we showed people how you have to go out in the field work in the dirt your hours are unpredictable and you might see your familyyou also might not." "There's a" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018771685059801344) 2026-02-03T19:40Z 934K followers, 55.4K engagements "Justin Mares on the Bryan Johnson vs. Ray Peat schools of thought: "There are two schools of thought. There's the Bryan Johnson school of thought which is: we've done all the research. We know that you need to eat a plant-based diet. We know that you need to do caloric restriction all in the name of longevity." "In many ways the Peaters are the exact opposite. The Peaters are like you should eat as much sugar as you possibly can mostly in the form of honey and fruit." "If Bryan Johnson is like 'I want to eat less and ramp down my metabolism it means I can live longer' the Peaters are like" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019116092954906968) 2026-02-04T18:29Z 933.9K followers, 28.9K engagements "Palmer Luckey on why he likes to keep his teams small: "You see these natural themes emerge over and over again across societies and across history. Its these groups of a certain size." "Look at the Founding FathersIm trying to keep every business unit as close to that size as I can." "People are tribal people work well with a certain number of people. Theres only so many people you can have very high trust in where you trust theyre truly doing things for the right reason." Source: @PalmerLuckey on @a16zcrypto with @cdixon https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019124887739330994" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019124887739330994) 2026-02-04T19:04Z 933.9K followers, 40.1K engagements ""80% of schools have contracts with soda companies." Truemed CEO Justin Mares on corporate capture of food and health guidelines: "These soda companies literally will pay a school district to put these vending machines all over the schools." "It helps fund schools but it also comes with the cost of getting kids sick." @jwmares @truemed "We exist in an environment that systematically outputs unhealthy people." @truemed CEO Justin Mares joins a16z's Erik Torenberg to trace the roots of America's chronic disease crisis and what it would take to fix it: - How $100 billion is subsidizing the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019140538965061993) 2026-02-04T20:06Z 933.9K followers, 21.7K engagements "Stripe co-founder John Collison says the companies that are successful in changing an industry are often not started by insiders because insiders know too much and dont think outside of the box: "To spot opportunities requires you to jump out of that mode briefly and question how things work and be unreasonable in suggesting that it's not valid for them to work this way." Source: @collision at @ECorner https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019151213787500824 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019151213787500824" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019151213787500824) 2026-02-04T20:48Z 934K followers, 54.2K engagements "Marc Andreessen on the history and definition of the meme: "There are sort of two definitions of meme. Number one: a meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally. That's its colloquial usage today." "Underneath that though is a deeper idea. The term 'meme' was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins." "The physical transmission of information through living things is the 'gene.' And then the conceptual intellectual transmission of ideas through people networks of people and societies is called the 'meme.'" "He basically said. successful ideas propagate like a gene does." [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019169116662428053) 2026-02-04T22:00Z 934.3K followers, 31.6K engagements "Death of Software. Nah. We are nowhere near meeting the demand for what software can do. Full article by @stevesi: https://www.a16z.news/p/death-of-software-nah https://www.a16z.news/p/death-of-software-nah" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019828856832823465) 2026-02-06T17:41Z 934.3K followers, 41.1K engagements "When transformative technology works we stop talking about how weird it is. Benedict Evans on how that happens: "There's a chart I did of the number of people employed in the US as elevator attendants which is a perfect bell curve." "First half of the 20th century you deploy a lot of elevators." "Second half of the 20th century they become automatic." "You don't get into an elevator now and say 'it's an electronic elevator'. It's just an elevator." @benedictevans and @balajis on The Network State Podcast" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019844883926905320) 2026-02-06T18:45Z 933.9K followers, 21.1K engagements "Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says that AI wont replace industries where the "human story" is the core appeal. "Back in [----] the first AI victory over humans was Deep Blue IBM's AI chess model beating Garry Kasparov. It was like the end of chess." "But now the chess industry is bigger than ever. It's like 5x bigger three times as many grand masters. The grand prizes are bigger than ever." "Turns out nobody wants to watch AIs playing chess even though Magnus Carlsen would get destroyed." Source: @vladtenev with @john on @fullsendpodcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019871300500767035" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019871300500767035) 2026-02-06T20:30Z 934.3K followers, 70.1K engagements "We asked ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski what people should take away from the story of ElevenLabs. "One is culture." "We obsess about bringing people that are aligned with how we want to operate day to day whether it's the ownership whether it's the first principles whether it's that striving for excellence but keeping the ego low." "The second thing. you want people that are great in their craft and are passionate about their craft passionate about that work." "If you bring people like this there's actually very little management and very little work that any of the leaders need to do."" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019903537766101451) 2026-02-06T22:38Z 933.9K followers, 41.5K engagements "We asked Mati what will the future look like in [----] when voice is the main interface ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski: "In that future what excites me is you will be almost a lot more immersed in the person-to-person interactions." "You'll be more dedicated to a conversation without technology." "Technology will be there but just will be there in the background. at the same time I think that a lot of the technology around us will be omnipresent." "Whether that's the devices finally working on our terms. whether it's the robot in the future that helps you with the day-to-day tasks." "And here" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019916552548807085) 2026-02-06T23:30Z 934.3K followers, 34.9K engagements "Of course theyre putting ads in AI By Bryan Kim https://www.a16z.news/p/of-course-theyre-putting-ads-in-ai https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS https://www.a16z.news/p/of-course-theyre-putting-ads-in-ai https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020880127517991227) 2026-02-09T15:19Z 934.3K followers, 65.2K engagements "a16z GP David George: "You need to adapt to the AI era or die. "On the front end you need to incorporate AI into your product natively and not just attach a chatbot app into your existing workflow." "Reimagine what it can mean with AI and be aggressive about disrupting yourself and changing." "And then on the back end. you need to be fully rolled out with the latest coding models for all of your developers." @DavidGeorge83 @jkhamehl Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020958441502802193) 2026-02-09T20:30Z 934.3K followers, 27.7K engagements "a16z GP David George: "AI is going to be the biggest modelbuster that I've seen in my career." "There are companies that grow faster and longer than anyone would've modeled in any scenario." "Tech. creates value far in excess of the capital that's required to grow." @DavidGeorge83 Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they cover: - Why December [----] was the inflection point for coding - Why "there are no dark GPUs" - How AI revenue is https://t.co/Es2zjc92D9 Product cycles run" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020999996209008775) 2026-02-09T23:15Z 934.3K followers, 24.8K engagements "Crypto provides a counterbalance to AI systems decentralizing something that tends to centralize. So what are builders actually working on And what challenges still need to be solved The @a16zcrypto team shares [--] use cases at the intersection of crypto x AI from universal identity for agents to keeping vibe-coding apps in sync and more. Here is their list and the opportunities still up for grabs 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1932807889808220576) 2025-06-11T14:31Z 934.3K followers, 146.1K engagements "Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: The core unlock that could happen with prediction markets is if you forecast the future better you are pricing risk. If you can price risk then you can make better decisions about the risk. And then also you can transfer it you can hedge. And I think that's where the market really really becomes very very large. Source: @mansourtarek_ (CEO @Kalshi) with @MollySOShea on @sourceryvc" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1984368623843213361) 2025-10-31T21:15Z 934.3K followers, 1.8M engagements "At Andreessen Horowitz we just raised over $15B. With these new funds including American Dynamism ($1.176B) Apps ($1.7B) Bio + Health ($700M) Infrastructure ($1.7B) Growth ($6.75B) and other venture strategies ($3B) we raised over 18% of all venture capital dollars allocated in the United States in [----]. Why did we raise the money and how do we plan to invest it Read more from Ben Horowitz: https://www.a16z.news/p/we-raised-15b-why https://www.a16z.news/p/we-raised-15b-why" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2009622690081223135) 2026-01-09T13:46Z 934.3K followers, 988.2K engagements "Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: I actually think we have achieved AGI. We just need to make it useful. Just apply it to everyday things that we want to do. I think we have all the AGI we need. @databricks CEO @alighodsi at Cal Hacks (UC Berkeley)" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2014805427893239966) 2026-01-23T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 83.2K engagements "Biology today is fragmented across PDFs spreadsheets and databases. Humans stitch results together manually often irreproducibly. Designers got Figma. Analysts got Excel. Software engineers got IDEs. Its time biologists get tools that reflect the way science actually works. @phylo_bio is building the first Integrated Biology Environment (IBE) a single place where hypotheses are generated experiments are planned data is analyzed models are run and results are produced in a way thats auditable and reproducible. Phylos cofounders Kexin Huang and Yuanhao Qu are the team for this problem: Kexin" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018719125741465840) 2026-02-03T16:12Z 934.4K followers, 103.2K engagements ".@balajis says AI is widening the verification gap. A massive number of jobs will be needed to close it. Prompting floods the world with fakes. Crypto brings back proof. You're gonna need cryptographically hashed posts and crypto IDs . to know the data wasn't tampered with. In the AI era trust has to be engineered. Good post from @balajis on the "verification gap". You could see it as there being two modes in creation. Borrowing GAN terminology: 1) generation and 2) discrimination. e.g. painting - you make a brush stroke (1) and then you look for a while to see if you improved the Good post" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1949914339671945540) 2025-07-28T19:26Z 934.4K followers, 546.8K engagements "Frontier model performance improvement across domains: h/t @EpochAIResearch" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1970944975908241499) 2025-09-24T20:14Z 934.4K followers, 39.3K engagements "China has overtaken the US in cumulative open-source AI model downloads:" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1984300599018733607) 2025-10-31T16:45Z 934.4K followers, 358.3K engagements "Balaji Srinivasan says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships. The founding engineer is the how The founding creator is the why. @balajis" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993089823981392142) 2025-11-24T22:50Z 934.4K followers, 715.4K engagements "Part [--] of Big Ideas [----] with takes from our American Dynamism and Apps teams on what next year holds for tech: https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-2 https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-2" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998788800970109250) 2025-12-10T16:16Z 934.4K followers, 163.7K engagements "Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch on the need for open-source AI: If you assume that the entire economy is going to run on AI systems enterprises will just want to make sure that nobody can turn off their systems. If you treat intelligence as electricity then you just want to make sure that your access to intelligence cannot be throttled. "The only way in which you can create systems that are effectively using the folklore knowledge of your employees the knowledge that you've accrued for decades. is to create your own models based on those open-source models." This is a technology which is so" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016629779680874721) 2026-01-28T21:49Z 934.4K followers, 288.8K engagements "The hottest role in tech the forward-deployed engineer was "the ugliest duckling" for a decade. In this conversation Akshay Krishnaswamy Chief Architect of Palantir joins a16z GP Erin Price-Wright to cover: - Why a good team of engineers is like a hive mind - The archetypes of people that thrive as FDEs - Why pain tolerance is a hiring filter - Managing high-agency engineers without hierarchy and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:17 Defining forward-deployed engineering 04:49 Differences between FDE and other roles 06:09 Building and managing teams 09:55 Challenges and evolution of FDE 15:27" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016942729050390847) 2026-01-29T18:33Z 934.4K followers, 125.7K engagements "Marc Andreessen: "There's no theoretical limit on where intelligence goes if you release the limitations of human biology." "I think we're used to living in a world where we don't understand how good good can get because we've been capped by our own biology and we're going to get to experience what it's like when you have the capability at your fingertips that's actually better than human in these domains." "Existing AI models right now are testing around the 130-140 IQ level which means they're going to get to the [---] level." "Would the world be better off or worse off with more or fewer" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018402890180936013) 2026-02-02T19:15Z 934.4K followers, 62.5K engagements "AI investments comprised a historically large share of VC capital in [----]. Ben Horowitz gets at why: "If you have data and you have enough GPUs you can solve almost any problem. It is magic." https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018443666243846351) 2026-02-02T21:57Z 934.4K followers, 34.7K engagements "We absolutely blew the door off of the Turing Test some time in the past few years and the milestone barely registered. We walked through it together surrounded by little gifts everywhere sharing funny memes with each other. Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold by Alex Danco: https://www.a16z.news/p/gift-culture-and-the-intelligence One of the most humans we do at Rites of Passage in our lives is giving gifts to help each other cross thresholds of new responsibility. Every birthday bar mitzvah wedding baby shower has been practice. Were ready for this. https://t.co/cHghxaeB1z" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019074377627951247) 2026-02-04T15:43Z 934.4K followers, 44K engagements "Figma CEO Dylan Field shares six tips for founders: [--]. Dont try to replicate. Understand where you have unique insight. [--]. Have self-awareness. [--]. Be humble. You're going to get punched in the face a lot. If you don't have humility you won't get through it. [--]. Be willing to adapt. [--]. Be greedy in your selection of a problem to work on in the first place. Do not start something that you can't see yourself working on in 10-20 years. Treat it like a multi-decade journey from the beginning. [--]. Get started. Source: @zoink on @ProfGMarkets https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019477489651966072" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019477489651966072) 2026-02-05T18:25Z 934.4K followers, 61.8K engagements "Search Wars: Episode II AI agents are poised to browse more of the internet than humans ever will. That shift breaks the old search stack and creates a new platform war over who gets to index the web for AI. Read the full piece: @JenniferHli @sarahdingwang @JasonSCui @steph_zhang https://a16z.substack.com/p/search-wars-episode-2 https://a16z.substack.com/p/search-wars-episode-2" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1988988996375179706) 2025-11-13T15:15Z 934.4K followers, 53.8K engagements "Were co-leading the $475M seed round for Unconventional AI a research lab tackling the moonshot of highly efficient AI-first chips. CEO Naveen Rao has sold two companies previously and were excited to be partnering with him in his next endeavor. He joined a16zs Matt Bornstein at NeurIPS for a conversation on starting a new chip company what better chips would mean for AGI why Naveen is so passionate about this mission and more. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Exploring hardware for running AI workloads 02:02 Why Naveen built lots of software in a "hardware company" 03:22 Why start a new chip company 05:13" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998086651529122136) 2025-12-08T17:45Z 934.4K followers, 1.6M engagements "Marc Andreessen on why perseverance matters: @pmarca" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2004598353406144780) 2025-12-26T17:01Z 934.4K followers, 364K engagements "By Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz At Andreessen Horowitz we just raised over $15B. With these new funds including American Dynamism ($1.176B) Apps ($1.7B) Bio + Health ($700M) Infrastructure ($1.7B) http://x.com/i/article/2009607020563836929 http://x.com/i/article/2009607020563836929" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2009614226617233440) 2026-01-09T13:12Z 934.4K followers, 2.9M engagements "It's time to build" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2009633915292856374) 2026-01-09T14:30Z 934.4K followers, 2.8M engagements "The culture document written by @bhorowitz that every a16z new hire signs: We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the culture document that says you'll adhere to https://t.co/LMnWcz1q75 We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2011922073321685274) 2026-01-15T22:02Z 934.4K followers, 478.1K engagements "Theres a Mexican standoff happening between product manager designer and coder. Marc Andreessen on how AI is reshaping core tech roles: Every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer because they have AI. Every product manager thinks they can be a coder and a designer. And every designer knows they can be a product manager and a coder. People in each of those roles now know or believe that with AI they dont need the other two roles anymore. @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016994954422407300" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2016994954422407300) 2026-01-29T22:00Z 934.4K followers, 426.3K engagements ""Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their $400 billion of spending." In this conversation with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Ben Horowitz and David Haber they cover: - Why the best time to raise money is when no one has money - Why this could be the biggest M&A year in history - What makes the AI supercycle different - Why some companies are growing at unprecedented rates - AI & crypto policy and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:09 Goldman's evolution from partnership to public company 15:33 "As sweet a spot" as Solomon has seen in [--] years 19:00 M&A outlook:" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018353435658400095) 2026-02-02T15:58Z 934.4K followers, 395.3K engagements "Vibe coding promised to democratize software engineering. We're living through a golden age of software. But the people drawn to vibe coding are largely developers founders designers and PMs. Theyre daily active users of X fans of Karpathys YouTube videos or regular listeners to Dwarkesh. They know what a terminal is. Most people can't vibe code. Here's how we fix that: By Justine Moore https://www.a16z.news/p/most-people-cant-vibe-code-heres https://t.co/xc9Um0cA50 https://www.a16z.news/p/most-people-cant-vibe-code-heres https://t.co/xc9Um0cA50" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018736666081693784) 2026-02-03T17:21Z 934.4K followers, 182.1K engagements "Ben Horowitz says top AI researchers command billion-dollar price tags because there are only a handful of people in the world who can do the job. "You cant learn it in school because its a little bit alchemistic in nature. Its a little bit of an art." "From the outside world it probably looked absolutely bananas. Why is somebody paying a hundred million dollars for an AI researcher or a billion dollars for an AI researcher" "Well what if there were only [--] of them in the world Then it kind of changes the math on it a little bit." "I think thats sort of where we were. Its the first time weve" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018799251334250728) 2026-02-03T21:30Z 934.4K followers, 83.1K engagements "Marc Andreessen on the untapped potential of AI agents: "You could have an AI bot that basically raises money to make a movie and then spends the money on image generation and sound generation." "Maybe even hiring actors. set designers or graphic artists or. sound effects people musicians." "Or let's take a more serious case. you could have an AI bot that's doing protein folding and literally coming up with cures doing personalized medicine for cancer patients." "You could easily imagine having an economic mechanism for that. hypothetically you could have the equivalent of like a GoFundMe but" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018820402395619727) 2026-02-03T22:54Z 934.4K followers, 300.3K engagements "Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley cant be recreated anywhere else in the world because of America's unique culture: "I go all over the world and everybody wants Silicon Valley like how can we have Silicon Valley in the UK How can we have it in France" "They have a lot of the ingredients. They have great talent. Theyve got great universities." "But theres a cultural challenge where succeeding doing something larger than yourself making the world a better place those arent things that young people feel like society values." "So the likelihood if youre building a company of getting people to work" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2018850893672915398) 2026-02-04T00:55Z 934.4K followers, 110.5K engagements "Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does "The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully deeply understand what the company does and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it." "To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work deeply understanding the issues and being the key lead problem solver in the organization." "What Elon does ishe shows up every week at each of his companies he identifies" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019507052863975574) 2026-02-05T20:22Z 934.4K followers, 135K engagements "Top apps for men and women More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019788236776952224) 2026-02-06T15:00Z 934.4K followers, 362.2K engagements "ElevenLabs started as a weekend project. They crossed $330M ARR in [----] as they build the voice interface of the future. This is the ElevenLabs story. An a16z Original" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2019803685262704897) 2026-02-06T16:01Z 934.4K followers, 347.5K engagements "Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they cover: - Why December [----] was the inflection point for coding - Why "there are no dark GPUs" - How AI revenue is growing faster than 100% year-over-year - Why OpenAI and Anthropic added nearly half the revenue of the entire public software industry in one year .and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:25 [----] revenue data: 693% growth and why unicorns are real 04:25 Why AI companies outgrow SaaS while spending less 07:15 Adapt or die: Coding" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020935007569838487) 2026-02-09T18:57Z 934.4K followers, 90K engagements "Marc Andreessen: The VC business is a game of outliers. "We have this conceptinvest in strength vs. lack of weakness." "The default way to do venture capital is to check boxes: really good founder really good idea really good product really good initial customers. Check check check check." "But what you find with those checkbox deals is they often don't have something that makes them really remarkable and special. They don't have an extreme strength that makes them an outlier." "On the other side the companies that have really extreme strengths often have serious flaws. So one of the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2020994276885401772) 2026-02-09T22:52Z 934.4K followers, 82K engagements "Elon Musk on what he looks for when hiring: "Evidence of exceptional ability." "Dont look at the resume. Just believe your interaction." "The resume may seem very impressive and its like 'Wow the resume looks good.' But if the conversation after [--] minutes is not 'wow' you should believe the conversation not the paper." Source: @elonmusk with Stripes @collision and @dwarkesh_sp https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021049085688676761 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021049085688676761" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021049085688676761) 2026-02-10T02:30Z 934.4K followers, 171.3K engagements "Ben Horowitz: "It's the best thing in the world for people to try to do something larger than yourself." "Why wouldn't you want to fund as much of that as you can" Read The Case for Scaling Venture: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021280872817975737) 2026-02-10T17:51Z 934.4K followers, 35.2K engagements ".@pmarca on Moltbook the social network for AI agents: "All of the science fiction novels basically have AI either being super utopian or super dystopian but they never have this incredible sense of humor aspect which is what we're actually gettingwhere people are just using everything as fodder for memes." "Moltbook is saturated with all of these incredibly funny memes. It's actually quite unclear which ones are real and which ones aren't." "There's an AI agent on Moltbook that has decided to create an AI religion. And at least as of today it had hired a single human worker to walk the" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021304925301657978) 2026-02-10T19:27Z 934.4K followers, 148.3K engagements "Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt which says 'Its always sunny in space.'" "In [--] months (but probably closer to [--] months) the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space." "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the suns power are you harnessing you realize you have to go to space." Source: @elonmusk with Stripes" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021309542198653355) 2026-02-10T19:45Z 934.4K followers, 396.1K engagements "Elon Musk on how he moves so fast: "I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor." "I generally try to aim for a deadline that I at least think is at the 50th percentile. So it's not like an impossible deadline but it's the most aggressive deadline I can think of that could be achieved with 50% probability. Which means that it'll be late half the time." "A maniacal sense of urgency is a very big deal. You want to have an aggressive schedule. And then you want to figure out what the limiting factor is at any point in time and and help the team address that limiting factor." Source: @elonmusk" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021317086572839399) 2026-02-10T20:15Z 934.4K followers, 1M engagements ""Weve heard tell of San Francisco as a new Florence an innovation cluster a city on fire In many ways we supersede Florence though in critical ways we fall dramatically behind." Ross Calvin for a16z Culture on the paradox of California where "Exit" is identity: @rosswcalvin https://www.a16z.news/p/im-out-whos-with-me-exit-as-an-organizing https://www.a16z.news/p/im-out-whos-with-me-exit-as-an-organizing" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021637616026993071) 2026-02-11T17:29Z 934.4K followers, 13.1K engagements "Venture is becoming go big or go niche. a16z GP Alex Rampell: "The hard thing is to be a midsize generalist because then you're largely going to lose to the big generalists or the small specialists." The Case for Scaling Venture by @eriktorenberg: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021719857881120925) 2026-02-11T22:55Z 934.4K followers, 40.5K engagements "Marc Andreessen on the undecided future of AI: "You can paint this picture that says the AI model companies are going to basically own everything." "You can also look at it and say. the whole thing's going to get eaten by open source. Or by China. Or by a combination of open source and China." "We're only [--] years into probably a 30-year shift. And I actually think we don't know yet." @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021732347511734401 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021732347511734401" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021732347511734401) 2026-02-11T23:45Z 934.4K followers, 58.7K engagements "David Ulevitch on how AI is transforming energy defense and logistics: "If you start at the most fundamental level energywe have an insatiable thirst for energy in this country and AI compute is driving a huge amount of it." "AI compute will then power lots of things. It's not just going to power ChatGPT but it's going to power autonomy systems all kinds of other language models and all other kinds of use cases." "If you look at defense computer vision is transforming the battlefield." "Then you see AI transforming logistics. flight operations and planning using AI so you can have the most" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2021742460561764376) 2026-02-12T00:25Z 934.4K followers, 17.3K engagements "Startups need preferential attachment. Here's how to get it: [--]. Find the people who are aligned with your brand and who could be giving something valuable away to the people you want to reach. [--]. Give those people something useful to build their own brands. Give them a platform open doors for them do anything to be useful for them. The Lighthouse Playbook by David Booth: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-lighthouse-playbook https://t.co/I91fssS7Ti https://www.a16z.news/p/the-lighthouse-playbook https://t.co/I91fssS7Ti" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022000906762600553) 2026-02-12T17:32Z 934.4K followers, 84.8K engagements "Anish Acharya's request for a startup: an AI companion that plays Minecraft with his son. "One of the products that I would love to exist. is what I call a contextual companion for my son who plays Minecraft." "You know the other kids playing Minecraft may or may not be the best influenceoften not the best influence." "There's this context in which they interact and I don't know just sort of models pro-social behaviors and is still cool and chill." "I think there's a lot of room for teaching through these types of relationships and technology can help provide that." Source: @illscience on" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022014770682245610) 2026-02-12T18:27Z 934.4K followers, 47.8K engagements "Space Dynamism Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other https://t.co/kxfG1yhgWh Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022064652516306974) 2026-02-12T21:45Z 934.4K followers, 41.1K engagements ""The next war is actually going to be fought in space." Katherine Boyle on investing in space defense: "We need to be thinking about attritable systems in space. We need to be thinking about offensive capabilities. We need to be thinking about how Golden Dome can potentially be a part of that." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022111412336861519 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022111412336861519" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022111412336861519) 2026-02-13T00:51Z 934.4K followers, 28.1K engagements "% of workday spent sitting by job Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022365818592596246) 2026-02-13T17:42Z 934.4K followers, 20.9K engagements "Katherine Boyle: "The defense industrial base in some ways is the reason why America is so strong and is so mighty." "Technology is the backbone of what makes America strong." "If we don't apply that to our national security and our national interest we lose a lot of that competitive nature." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022381787096486240 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022381787096486240" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022381787096486240) 2026-02-13T18:46Z 934.4K followers, [----] engagements "Balaji Srinivasan on "The Great Firewall": "Digital borders and physical borders are the same thing." "The Great Firewall will be seen in some ways as a very farsighted thing because it is digital hard borders." "People won't be able to script drones on Chinese soil. They wont be able to script humanoids on Chinese soil." @balajis and @danwwang on Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022453766826676436 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022453766826676436" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022453766826676436) 2026-02-13T23:32Z 934.4K followers, 31.8K engagements "Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis: "Our vision of the future is every moving machine will be intelligent." "Self-driving is one part of that intelligence. Its not the whole thing." "Once you have a beefy central compute you can do a lot more things with it." "Just think about this dumb car or this dumb tank becoming more like your phone." @qasar on Uncapped with @jaltma https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022476316499730888 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022476316499730888" [X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/2022476316499730888) 2026-02-14T01:01Z 934.4K followers, 17.7K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@a16z a16z
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Social Influence
Social category influence vc firms #1 finance 13.38% technology brands 9.86% stocks 7.75% celebrities 4.93% countries 4.93% financial services #1827 social networks 1.41% nba 0.7% events 0.7%
Social topic influence ai #2785, ceo #760, ben #2988, the world 10.56%, in the 10.56%, if you 7.75%, the most #2853, future #1080, culture 5.63%, environment #867
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @pmarca @bhorowitz @tocelot @aiktp_com @grok @billcrosby @eriktorenberg @jason_a_scharf @davidgeorge83 @dhaber @balajis @lennysan @mcrypto2024_ @ensxbt @davidsolomon @edwardkens50830 @martincasado @investlikebest @patrickoshag @harrystebbings
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
""We exist in an environment that systematically outputs unhealthy people." @truemed CEO Justin Mares joins a16z's Erik Torenberg to trace the roots of America's chronic disease crisis and what it would take to fix it: - How $100 billion is subsidizing the ingredients making us sick - The case against universal Ozempic - The many chemical compounds allowed in the US but banned in Europe - Why peptides could be "exceptionally disruptive" to pharma - The Ray Peat view: more sugar more metabolism more energy 00:00 Introduction 0:44 The environment that makes us sick 04:19 What went wrong in the"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:56Z 934.4K followers, 66.3K engagements
"Waymo is eating into rideshare. More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:46Z 934.4K followers, 75.8K engagements
"Worldwide app revenues now exceed game revenues. More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:54Z 934.4K followers, 141.5K engagements
".@pmarca says the winner of the US-China AI race could dictate what all [--] billion people on Earth use but open source introduces a third possibility: "The stakes are basically: what is the world going to run on" "In the long run somebody's gonna win. And the world will either be running on American AI or be running on Chinese AI." "The open source thing is super fascinating because it throws a wrench into all of this. It raises a third possibility that neither the US nor China are going to be the platform it may just be open source." Marc Andreessen with @jpatel41 at Cisco AI Summit"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:30Z 934.4K followers, 101.3K engagements
"JUST IN: US adults "optimism" hits record low JUST IN: US adults "optimism" hits record low"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:58Z 934.4K followers, 194.2K engagements
"We all start somewhere https://t.co/hww1DbA5q4 https://t.co/hww1DbA5q4"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 458.8K engagements
"Earvin "Magic" Johnson and a16z's Chris Lyons sat down for a conversation on Magic's [--] year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman including what Magic learned from Michael Ovitz Magic's investments in Silicon Valley and sports why athletes should take equity over endorsements and more. 00:00 Introduction 05:09 How Michael Ovitz became Magic's first business mentor 07:42 The art of deal making and building a Rolodex 17:30 Magic's first Silicon Valley investment: Skydio 27:00 Building a team: Get people smarter than you 29:48 The one that got away: Nike stock in [----] 37:36 Why AI is"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:23Z 934.4K followers, 241.5K engagements
"Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming. It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English. You can imagine kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software and you can edit that at a high level. It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code it'll instead be something that's much terser and easier to understand and easier to navigate. Source: @mntruell (CEO @cursor_ai) with"
X Link 2025-11-04T20:45Z 933.6K followers, 813.7K engagements
"Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on AI Building in Fintech and Contrarian Bets Robinhood broke from the consensus: zero commissions when competitors charged $10 mobile-first when the expectation was desktop and bold branding in response to disillusionment with the financial system. CEO Vlad Tenev sat down with a16z General Partners Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg to tell the story of how he built @RobinhoodApp. They cover the origin of fintech as a category how Robinhood survived crises the societal role of financial asset ownership and more. 00:00 Introduction 10:08 Why Not Make It Free 27:00"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:27Z 933K followers, 97.9K engagements
"Balaji Srinivasan on the coming verification gap in an AI world. AI is going to create massive numbers of jobs in proctoring and verification because its so good at faking things. AI makes everything fake and crypto makes it real again. @balajis"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:48Z 933.8K followers, 432.3K engagements
"How Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros changes the media company pecking order More charts of the week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-if-you-cant-join https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-if-you-cant-join"
X Link 2025-12-05T23:45Z 930.7K followers, 237K engagements
"San Fransiscans love starting big companies: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-agents-start-to https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-agents-start-to"
X Link 2025-12-19T18:40Z 931.6K followers, 115.3K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on drive: @pmarca"
X Link 2025-12-24T16:57Z 931.2K followers, 89.8K engagements
"ICYMI: Packy McCormick's [-----] word deep dive on a16z a16z is a Firm. It is a business a company. It is built with the goal to scale and to improve with scale. There are many characteristics of a Firm that I believe do not apply to a traditional Fund and we will cover them. I think this distinction solves one of the oddest things about venture capitals self-image: that venture capital is an industry that sells the worlds most scalable product (money) to its most scalable companies (technology startups) but must not itself scale. This distinction - Firm Fund - comes from a16z GP David Haber"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:43Z 931.4K followers, 241.1K engagements
"We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the culture document that says you'll adhere to this culture. Our whole point is if you want to do something larger than yourself and make the world a better place we are a hundred percent for it. @bhorowitz @packyM In Packy McCormick's recent deep dive on a16z he writes What a16z aims to do is provide legitimacy and power for startups. a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and"
X Link 2026-01-15T18:50Z 931.6K followers, 393K engagements
"The AI era of apps is here. In this discussion with a16z Apps Fund GPs Alex Rampell David Haber and Anish Acharya they break down: - How AI is driving explosive product growth - The new product categories that couldn't exist before AI - Why AI-native startups should look for greenfield opportunities with unserved customers instead of competing with large incumbents - Why moats still matter - How software is eating labor 00:00 Introduction 02:17 AI's role in enterprise and consumer applications 05:03 Emerging AI trends and investment strategies 08:43 Traditional software going AI-native 14:40"
X Link 2026-01-19T18:27Z 931.3K followers, 88.2K engagements
"Were excited to announce that were leading a $150M seed round for Inferact. @inferact is a new startup led by the maintainers of the vLLM project including Simon Mo Woosuk Kwon Kaichao You and Roger Wang. vLLM is the leading open source inference engine and one of the biggest open source projects of any kind and is used in production by companies like Meta Google Character AI and many others. Inferact supports the vLLM project through dedicated financial and developer resources and will build what they see as the next generation commercial inference engine. For a16z infra investing in the"
X Link 2026-01-22T17:18Z 931.4K followers, 198.6K engagements
"ChatGPT reached [---] billion searches [---] times faster than Google. a16z GP David George: AI is built on the back of the internet and cloud computing. And because of that it allows for immediate global distribution. Because of the nature of this technology you don't have to deliver a new hardware product. And because we have global internet buildout and because we have cloud computing the whole world can access this. @DavidGeorge83 AI is scaling faster than anyone expected. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha they cover: - Why AI can capture larger markets than previous"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:38Z 930.3K followers, 60.7K engagements
"Saronic CEO Dino Mavrookass best advice for new founders: Don't ask necessarily what the world needs but ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people that have come alive. Once you build conviction send it. Pull on those threads understand the big impacts you wanna have and then just go ask the questions. I tell this story about going on Capitol Hill with this PowerPoint slide of an electric surfboard. I was just waiting for somebody to just tell me I'm an idiot. You have to be willing to go out put yourself out there and then hear the feedback and listen to the"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:26Z 931K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Revenue growth for outlier AI companies is astronomical"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:35Z 931.4K followers, 21.7K engagements
"230 million people around the world are using ChatGPT for health related questions each week. a16z's Jay Rughani on why people are turning to AI for health: The healthcare system that we have today in the US is drastically supply constrained. A hundred million people plus dont have access to a primary care doc. All that friction is frustrating and the demand exhaust shoots off somewhere. People want agency so that agencys gonna go somewhere. @JayRughani @nikillinit Healthcare is off to a wild start in [----]. On the @a16z pod I riffed with America's favorite healthcare comedian Nikhil Krishnan"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:42Z 931.2K followers, 48.9K engagements
"Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis on choosing between being a founder and a VC: Being a VC is a cerebral job. And fundamentally what a VC does is you buy and sell stock. As a founder you have to love product and you have to love team building. You have to figure out if youre trying to make this decision 'should I be a VC or should I be a founder' Which one of those things resonates with you more @AppliedInt CEO @qasar at @SlushHQ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016316235328454799 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016316235328454799"
X Link 2026-01-28T01:03Z 931.5K followers, 51K engagements
"Unicorns are real"
X Link 2026-01-28T15:30Z 931.2K followers, 15K engagements
"The first video on the web was a coffee pot. a16z GP Martin Casado: The reality is that video of a coffee pot in no small way became Netflix. We all make fun of the excitement around what seem like trivial things. We see a lot of silly use cases and tend to think of them like Oh this is silly stuff and what are the enterprise use cases but this is what the future always looks like. @martin_casado on WSJ's Bold Names podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016598484728881653 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016598484728881653"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:45Z 931.3K followers, 17K engagements
"Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch on why AGI is too simple of a concept: Theres no such thing as one system that is going to be solving all of the problems of the world. Its never going to exist. Just like you don't have any human that is able to solve every task in the world you of course have to have some level of specialization to actually solve problems. We are back from magical thinking to system thinking. In real life enterprises are just complex systems. You cant solve that with a single abstraction which is AGI. @arthurmensch on @BigTechPod https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016609854350381294"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:30Z 931.3K followers, 37.7K engagements
"a16z GP Martin Casado on what people get wrong about bubbles: "The question is not 'Are we overinvesting relative to short-term demand'" "The question is are we overinvesting relative to long-term demand And if so do we have the economic reserves to stop some sort of systemic unraveling" The fundamentals are so different and so much better this time than they were during the late 90s." Remember we overvalued things in mobile. We overvalued things during the early cloud boom. We overvalued things during the early SaaS boom. Does this mean theres gonna be systemic collapse I see absolutely zero"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:00Z 931.2K followers, 19.9K engagements
""People want more agency in their healthcare." Out-of-Pocket founder Nikhil Krishnan: "The existing healthcare system really wants to create standardized care. and make medicine good at the median level for everyone." "But. people want more agency in their healthcare." "I think this is one of the reasons why protocols are so popular right now like Huberman protocols and Peter Attia protocols." "The core thing of what these protocols are saying is eat well sleep well. The normal advice. but it gives people what seems like a task list." "Whether or not theyre doing it is sort of irrelevant but"
X Link 2026-01-29T15:00Z 932.5K followers, 14.9K engagements
"AI can capture much larger markets than traditional software"
X Link 2026-01-29T15:30Z 933.8K followers, 125.7K engagements
"We literally with AI have a technology that transfers sand into thought. Marc Andreessen on why AI is the philosophers stone: The early scientists including Isaac Newton were super obsessed with this concept of alchemy. Alchemy was the transmutation of lead into gold. Which meant the transmutation of something that was very common which was lead into something that was very rare and valuable which was gold. The most common thing in the world which is sand converted into the most rare thing in the world which is thought. And so AI is the philosophers stone. @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:24Z 931.4K followers, 185K engagements
"What is the archetype Palantir looks for in forward deployed engineers a16z's Erin Price-Wright asked Palantir Chief Architect Akshay Krishnaswamy: "One is some sort of interesting cross-functional persona. Someone was a physicist but now wants to do this." "Theres a little bit of 'I need to prove to myself to the world that this outcome should happen and also that I can do it.'" "It's a bit of a chip on the shoulder. It's a bit of a thumos in them." @hyperindexed @espricewright The hottest role in tech the forward-deployed engineer was "the ugliest duckling" for a decade. In this"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:27Z 931.3K followers, 32.3K engagements
"Marc Andreessen: "The job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task." "A job is a bundle of tasks." Everybody wants to talk about job loss but really what you want to look at is task loss. "As the tasks change enough then thats when the jobs change." "Ten years from now is your job title coder or coder-designer-product manager or is it just I build products or is it just I tell the AI how to build products. Whatever that job is called its going to be incredibly important because the people doing that job are"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:30Z 931.8K followers, 294K engagements
"We need AI to work. Marc Andreessen on why AI is arriving at a moment of economic and demographic pressure: "Productivity growth for the last [--] years has actually been very low not very high." "So statistically in the US in the west technology progress in the economy . has actually slowed way down." "Many countries around the world . are actually going to depopulate over the next century." "We actually need AI to work in order to get productivity growth up. We actually need AI to work because were going to need machines to do all the jobs that were not going to have people to do." @pmarca on"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:18Z 930.9K followers, 31.3K engagements
"Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann on software development going from being a job to being a baseline skill: "Today youre either a developer or not." "I think software development will just be a skill." "Just like with writing there will still be professional writers but all of us also have to know how to write as part of our jobs." "There'll still be some expert developers. but itll be the minority." @biilmann @Netlify @martin_casado https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017348822641656301 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017348822641656301"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:26Z 933.1K followers, 39.8K engagements
"Leaders gainers and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms race By @sarahdingwang @justin_kahl and @shangdaxu Who is the actual king of enterprise AI The market is too dynamic to crown a single durable winner. But the data does reveal clear leaders fast gainers and a few outcomes that run counter to popular narratives. Read the full piece based on our third annual CIO survey of [---] companies in the Global 2000: https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winners NARRATIVE VIOLATION: despite all the hand wringing yes OpenAI still has the largest adoption and wallet share in"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:11Z 930.9K followers, 31.7K engagements
"Ben Horowitz: History says the AI job-loss panic is misguided. "Weve been automating things since the agricultural days. In those days I think [--] or 96% of all jobs in the US were agriculture. Almost all of those jobs have been eliminated. And the jobs we have nowthe people doing agriculture wouldnt even consider them jobs." "The idea that we could imagine all the jobs that are going to come sitting here that AI is going to enable I think is low." "I think the need for more creativity jobs is going to go way up." "ChatGPT was in [----]. Andwheres all the job destruction Why hasnt it happened"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:42Z 933.7K followers, 51.9K engagements
"Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on the open question of agentic investing: "Models work on the facts that are available." "Sometimes the biggest changes in the way you have to think about investing in a portfolio comes from things that are completely new and unexpected." "It can't be something from the past." "There are a handful of people who have so outperformed as investors over a long period of time but. generally speaking people underperform." "And so if the models are based on the information that the people are underperforming all have it's going to be interesting to see whether"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:00Z 933.6K followers, 62.7K engagements
"Ben Horowitz: AI is the greatest equalizer of opportunity weve ever seen. "Starting from day one it was completely democratized. The AI that anybody gets access to is a very powerful AI. Anybody with a phoneand now most people in the world at this point have smartphonescan get superintelligence in their phone." "Every child can have a super-advanced amazing tutor/teacher. Great education is accessible to all now." All systems end up with a lot of inequality but you can try systematically to give everybody an opportunity. I think AI does a really good job of that. Source: @bhorowitz on"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:34Z 933.6K followers, 35.7K engagements
"RT @a16zcrypto: There are a lot of debates around ads access and open vs. closed happening right now. But the question is who is in"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:51Z 931.5K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @matiii: The ElevenLabs documentary from our amazing partners at @a16z. A deeper look at our company culture and what we're building"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:48Z 931.7K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @cdixon: http://x.com/i/article/2019830030931750923 http://x.com/i/article/2019830030931750923"
X Link 2026-02-07T01:13Z 932.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Northwood Space CEO Bridgit Mendler's advice to founders: "Be more ambitious than you think you should." "You'd be surprised how quickly things change and how quickly things develop." "If you're setting out to use your precious time in your life building something build something big." "Choose something meaningful. It's going to take up so much time and so much of your life energy to build. Do something you care about." @bridgitmendler @NorthwoodSpace Today Northwood has raised $100M in Series B funding led by @WashingHarbour and co-led by @a16z to support a simple objective take space"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:24Z 934.4K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Balaji Srinivasan proposes a western version of the special economic zone where builders can operate at the speed of physics not permits. The special Elon zone or more generally the special founder zone. Its like an essentially uninhibited territory as close to Burning Man as possible Ben Horowitz: I think thats very doable. Theres so many states in the US that would wanna do that. I know Nevada would wanna do that. @balajis and @bhorowitz on Network State podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016904374317105595 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016904374317105595"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:00Z 934.4K followers, 297.9K engagements
"The regulatory landscape is fairly scary right now." Marc Andreessen on AI regulation: "We were headed towards extreme overregulationup to and including possibly full outlawing of the technology which is very spooky." "The action in the US has now shifted to the states. There are now thousands of AI bills and many of them are actually quite scary." "The situation in Europe is quite alarming. There are a number of European countries really trying hard to kneecap American technology." Source: @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022097216324968741"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:55Z 934.4K followers, 38K engagements
"New tech creates new jobs Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:02Z 934.4K followers, 148.4K engagements
""You can't just think your way into an advantage." Balaji Srinivasan on why AGI may be embodied: "Every drone every self-driving car every humanoid pulls in all that sensory data. They actually can have a world model." "The very Abrahamic western concept of a single AGI that will tell us what to do might have been plausible three years agoI don't think it's really that plausible now." "AGI is gated by the physical world." @balajis on Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022397513396047938 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022397513396047938"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:48Z 934.4K followers, 33.1K engagements
"SF is back. Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:31Z 934.4K followers, 241.2K engagements
"Why are hyperlinks blue"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:56Z 934.4K followers, 7.7M engagements
"AI Capex is massive but sustainable. Full State of Markets deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQXsMMv5ZCWm77za7oXJcz1X-Th5Mz15g5nYBxbUjnomStVcjn8lXPjE5LzAlvc_hg4yHKgwASWLo5a/pub AI is seeing faster growth than any previous technology cycle. A few things stand out: - Unicorns are real: The top decile unicorns are growing revenue 6x faster than the median - Power laws: The definition of "large-cap" has tripled since [----] and incumbents are being https://t.co/bGP7hAf6gj"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:57Z 934.4K followers, 104.6K engagements
"Vibe coding has unleashed a torrent of new iOS apps in the app store. After basically zero growth for the past three years new app releases surged 60% yoy in December (and 24% on a trailing twelve month basis). Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-the-almighty-consumer https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-the-almighty-consumer"
X Link 2026-01-23T15:11Z 934.4K followers, 974.3K engagements
""Clippy is finally vindicated." Balaji Srinivasan: "You actually want to put faces on your AI avatars on your AI agents." "The reason they're intuitive to a hundred million people is they're used to chatting with another human on the other side." "They're already modeling the chat box as being a human-like response." "But when it's outside of that chat box environment and it's suggesting on the screen you kind of want a face to pop up." @balajis on The Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019837134904127773 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019837134904127773"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:14Z 934.4K followers, 57.9K engagements
"How people use ChatGPT https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 285.4K engagements
"We're thrilled to lead Shizuku AI's seed round. In January [----] while still completing his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley Akio Kodaira launched an AI VTuber named Shizuku on YouTube. He ran dozens of streams building a community of thousands of followers who tuned in to talk with an AI character that actually felt present. This project is now something much bigger: @ShizukuAILabs is building an AI lab in Japan dedicated to developing AI companions and characterscombining cutting-edge research with the artistic sensibility that has made Japanese character design beloved worldwide. With experience"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:42Z 934.4K followers, 477.5K engagements
"Sports teams are among the most durable compounding assets in America. Magic Johnson on why he invests in sports: "When we bought the Dodgers for $2.2 billion everybody said we overpaid. Now its $8 billion." "Dr. Buss bought the Lakers for $65 million. They just sold for $10 billion." "Nobodys ever going to stop watching sports in America." @MagicJohnson with a16z GP @ChrisLyons Earvin "Magic" Johnson and a16z's Chris Lyons sat down for a conversation on Magic's [--] year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman including what Magic learned from Michael Ovitz Magic's investments in"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:53Z 934.4K followers, 161K engagements
"Marc Andreessen: "Productivity growth is about to go through the roof." "Productivity growth for the last [----] years has been basically at historical lows. Fundamentally I think it's because we decided other things are more important." "We decided we didn't want nuclear power. We decided we didn't want a space program. We decided we didn't want cars that went faster than 55." "What we got in the last [--] years was hyper-acceleration in very specificallychips and software. And then essentially stagnation in everything else." "If either the AI optimists are correct or the AI doomsayers are"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:22Z 934.4K followers, 76K engagements
"Anish Acharya says the #1 edge for founders and investors today is relentlessly trying every new AI model and product yourself. "Being native in this product cycle just means waking up every day and being like if there's three new models today I'm going to try three new modelsI'm actually going to make something." "Holding yourself to an incredibly high standard of trying everything just gives you so much information and intuition. I think it's non-negotiable for founders and I think it's incredibly important for investors as well." Source: @illscience on 20VC with @HarryStebbings"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:58Z 934.4K followers, 17.4K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on his experience using AI as a doctor: "I let Dr. GPT walk me through basically every stage of food poisoning. It's the most amazing endlessly patient infinitely knowledgeable endlessly caring doctor." @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:20Z 934.4K followers, 37.8K engagements
"Katherine Boyle: "I think @elonmusk's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers to work with their hands again." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:04Z 934.4K followers, 163.2K engagements
"SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT Perplexity and Claude Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm it's about being cited by it. The brands that win in GEO won't just appear in AI responses. They'll shape them. Must-read from @zachcohen25 and @seema_amble on the future of search marketing and performance in the LLM era. https://bit.ly/3SpGDRO https://bit.ly/3SpGDRO"
X Link 2025-05-28T16:40Z 934.4K followers, 651.4K engagements
"Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on Curing All Disease We sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg co-founders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to discuss their ambitious plan to cure prevent and manage all disease by the end of the century. CZIs Biohub aims to generate vast biological datasets to train new frontier AI models to guide scientists in the lab creating a feedback loop to accelerate the pace of basic science and take us towards a world without disease. 00:00 Introduction 03:42 Building tools to accelerate scientific discovery 07:03 Biohub = Frontier Biology +"
X Link 2025-11-06T17:31Z 934.4K followers, 376.7K engagements
"The world has massively underestimated how much natural gas the future needs and now AI data centers and LNG exports are competing for supply. So who should get the gas Enjoy part [--] of this doubleheader from Michael Spyker teaching us everything we need to know about the resource powering AI: @ShaleTier7 https://www.a16z.news/p/gas-fired-intelligence-part-2 https://www.a16z.news/p/gas-fired-intelligence-part-2"
X Link 2025-11-21T19:32Z 934.4K followers, 272.7K engagements
"Ben Horowitz: Computing has always needed two pillars machines and networks. AI has the machines but not the network. Crypto is the missing layer giving AI money identity provenance against deepfakes. Source: @bhorowitz at @Columbia_Biz"
X Link 2025-11-27T22:06Z 934.4K followers, 184.8K engagements
"Announcing a16z Build: A dinner series and community for founders technologists and operators figuring out what they want to build next and who they want to build with. Apply or nominate today: http://build.a16z.com http://build.a16z.com"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:26Z 934.4K followers, 585.1K engagements
"Ben Horowitz on the importance of culture: "A culture is not a set of ideas its a set of actions." "If you define your culture as a kind of set of ideasintegrity do the right thing we have each others backs or any of these corporate valuesits actually just a bunch of platitudes. It doesnt mean anything. The culture has to be defined in terms of the exact behavior you want that support that idea." "Its the little thingshow responsive are you to your colleagues Whats the SLA on returning a Slack message or an email Do you show up to meetings on time" "We have an idea aboutyou have to respect"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:02Z 934.4K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Why dont trees have eyes Because they dont move. Movement creates the need for perception. That idea is at the heart of why AI needs spatial intelligence and its central to how @drfeifei and @theworldlabs are thinking about the future of AI"
X Link 2025-09-17T16:10Z 933.9K followers, 29.3K engagements
"David Sacks says the biggest risk of AI was described not by James Cameron in The Terminator but by George Orwell in [----]. I almost feel like the term woke AI is insufficient to explain whats going on because it somehow trivializes it. What were really talking about is 'Orwellian AI.' Were talking about AI that lies to you that distorts an answer that rewrites history in real time to serve a current political agenda of the people who are in power. To me this is the biggest risk of AI. Its not The Terminator its [----]. @DavidSacks David Sacks on Polytheistic AI Better Crypto Regulation Beating"
X Link 2025-11-03T18:26Z 933.8K followers, 16.3M engagements
"We asked a16z's investors for their takes on the biggest problems builders will tackle in [----]. Here's part [--] of Big Ideas 2026: https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-1 https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-1"
X Link 2025-12-09T16:45Z 934K followers, 255.1K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on why the product is the most important thing for a tech CEO to understand: You better have somebody running the company who really understands those products. In the technology industry thats usually a technologist. The alternate model seems to work better which is the technologist who basically picks up the skills to become a CEO along the way. This is a very difficult challenging thing to do. Nobody ever said it would be easy. @pmarca at Fortune Brainstorm 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=W4KfTEltF2A https://www.youtube.com/watchv=W4KfTEltF2A"
X Link 2025-12-30T15:01Z 934.3K followers, 56.1K engagements
"In Packy McCormick's recent deep dive on a16z he writes What a16z aims to do is provide legitimacy and power for startups. a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have been building the venture firm to provide entrepreneurs with legitimacy and power for almost two decades. In this conversation they join Packy and a16z GP Erik Torenberg to cover how they did it and the worldview behind a16z including: - How a16z compounds reputation - How the media ecosystem has changed since a16z began & how a16z has adapted - How a16z is structured to put entrepreneurs first and enable them to win -"
X Link 2026-01-15T17:33Z 934.3K followers, 571.1K engagements
"Bloomberg profiles a16z's infra team: @martin_casado @JenniferHli @BornsteinMatt @RaghuRaghuram https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-19/andreessen-horowitz-makes-a-3-billion-bet-against-the-ai-bubble An unconventional team at Andreessen Horowitz is finding success with a newer fund focused on AI infrastructure https://t.co/3ZpM9i8Nnk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-19/andreessen-horowitz-makes-a-3-billion-bet-against-the-ai-bubble An unconventional team at Andreessen Horowitz is finding success with a newer fund focused on AI infrastructure https://t.co/3ZpM9i8Nnk"
X Link 2026-01-19T19:14Z 934K followers, 46K engagements
"Charlie Munger's advice to Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen: The key to success is dumb competition. I always say that to people who are building AI companies. What a nightmare. Your competitors are literally AI geniuses. You should find a way to apply AI in some other domain so you're not competing with the smartest people on planet Earth. @Flexport CEO @typesfast on The Knowledge Project Podcast with @shaneparrish https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014052254446457118 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014052254446457118"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:07Z 934.3K followers, 798.4K engagements
"AI is scaling faster than anyone expected. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha they cover: - Why AI can capture larger markets than previous technologies - The unprecedented scale of the AI infrastructure buildout - The implications of companies staying private longer - The kinds of companies that will find durable value creation from AI and more. 00:00 Introduction 04:21 The market opportunity for AI 26:48 Pricing monetization and cash burn 43:15 Companies staying private longer 51:30 Portfolio composition and construction 57:18 Team culture and collaboration"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:07Z 934.1K followers, 106.4K engagements
"Ben Horowitz on where AI regulation should actually focus: "The model is a model. It's a mathematical model. It predicts things. It's not a sentient being." "If you ban the technology or infringe people's ability to do mathematics. that has hundred-year implications." "Don't regulate math. Regulate the applications of that math." "If somebody uses AI to break into a bank or make a robot that shoots somebody that's illegal. But the technology itself shouldn't be illegal." @bhorowitz with @DavidSolomon and @dhaber "Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:42Z 934K followers, 30.2K engagements
""If you're not top tier the best entrepreneurs won't take your money." Ben Horowitz on how a16z thought about being "top tier" differently: "Historically the way you became top tier was reputational." "So the idea we had. was to have a better product. specifically for entrepreneurs." "The venture capital product was great for LPs but mediocre for entrepreneurs. So we designed the firm to really enable a founder to build their own company and run it as CEO." @bhorowitz with @DavidSolomon and @dhaber "Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their $400 billion of"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:30Z 934.3K followers, 67.1K engagements
"Ben Horowitz explains why AI killed the 'Mythical Man Month': "For my whole life in technology there was this thing called the Mythical Man Month: nine women cannot have a baby in a month." "If you're Google you can't just put a thousand software engineers on a product and wipe out a startup because you can only. build that product with seven or eight people. Once they've figured it out they've got that lead." "That's not true with AI. If you have data and you have enough GPUs you can solve almost any problem. It is magic." "You can throw money at the problem. We've never had that in tech.""
X Link 2026-02-02T20:15Z 933.9K followers, 259.8K engagements
"a16z GP David George: "We were the only VC fund that invested in Waymo in early 2020." "It was extraordinary. I mean the project was magic even at the time." "We did demo rides. it could drive smoother than a human. they could do all these really special things that you wouldn't think an autonomous car could do at the time." "But at the time they didn't have a product in the market and I thought the valuation was really high." "Marc and Ben were like 'It's autonomous driving. this is endless market size. This could be the biggest company in consumer technology.'" Source: @DavidGeorge83 with"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:34Z 934.3K followers, 109.7K engagements
"Galadyne is rethinking American missile platforms for scale. American missile production is bottlenecked on cost speed and scalability. For years solid rockets have been the status quo due to a historical need for low complexity. But solid rockets are slow to produce hard to scale and rely on vulnerable supply chains. Theres now a decade of evidence in the commercial space industry proving its possible to produce liquid rockets at scale and manage their complexity with software. @_galadyne is bringing these innovations in liquid rockets to missiles. They intend to deliver a product that can"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:06Z 934K followers, 40.8K engagements
""It could be the biggest M&A year in history." Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: "M&A and capital raising and IPOs are driven by confidence. And so if you have a tough regulatory environment that is something that affects confidence." "For the last four years whatever the question was the answer was no." "Now whatever the question is. the answer is maybe." @DavidSolomon with @dhaber and @bhorowitz https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:24Z 934K followers, 28.2K engagements
""It's important to get the right people. It's even more important to repel the wrong people." Palmer Luckey explains the idea behind their "Don't Work for Anduril" recruiting campaign: "When you're doing something early and it's really crazy and new you only get the true believersthe people who are there because they want to be. They believe in what you're doing and they could be making more money elsewhere." "We did a commercial where we showed people how you have to go out in the field work in the dirt your hours are unpredictable and you might see your familyyou also might not." "There's a"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:40Z 934K followers, 55.4K engagements
"Justin Mares on the Bryan Johnson vs. Ray Peat schools of thought: "There are two schools of thought. There's the Bryan Johnson school of thought which is: we've done all the research. We know that you need to eat a plant-based diet. We know that you need to do caloric restriction all in the name of longevity." "In many ways the Peaters are the exact opposite. The Peaters are like you should eat as much sugar as you possibly can mostly in the form of honey and fruit." "If Bryan Johnson is like 'I want to eat less and ramp down my metabolism it means I can live longer' the Peaters are like"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:29Z 933.9K followers, 28.9K engagements
"Palmer Luckey on why he likes to keep his teams small: "You see these natural themes emerge over and over again across societies and across history. Its these groups of a certain size." "Look at the Founding FathersIm trying to keep every business unit as close to that size as I can." "People are tribal people work well with a certain number of people. Theres only so many people you can have very high trust in where you trust theyre truly doing things for the right reason." Source: @PalmerLuckey on @a16zcrypto with @cdixon https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019124887739330994"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:04Z 933.9K followers, 40.1K engagements
""80% of schools have contracts with soda companies." Truemed CEO Justin Mares on corporate capture of food and health guidelines: "These soda companies literally will pay a school district to put these vending machines all over the schools." "It helps fund schools but it also comes with the cost of getting kids sick." @jwmares @truemed "We exist in an environment that systematically outputs unhealthy people." @truemed CEO Justin Mares joins a16z's Erik Torenberg to trace the roots of America's chronic disease crisis and what it would take to fix it: - How $100 billion is subsidizing the"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:06Z 933.9K followers, 21.7K engagements
"Stripe co-founder John Collison says the companies that are successful in changing an industry are often not started by insiders because insiders know too much and dont think outside of the box: "To spot opportunities requires you to jump out of that mode briefly and question how things work and be unreasonable in suggesting that it's not valid for them to work this way." Source: @collision at @ECorner https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019151213787500824 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019151213787500824"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:48Z 934K followers, 54.2K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on the history and definition of the meme: "There are sort of two definitions of meme. Number one: a meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally. That's its colloquial usage today." "Underneath that though is a deeper idea. The term 'meme' was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins." "The physical transmission of information through living things is the 'gene.' And then the conceptual intellectual transmission of ideas through people networks of people and societies is called the 'meme.'" "He basically said. successful ideas propagate like a gene does."
X Link 2026-02-04T22:00Z 934.3K followers, 31.6K engagements
"Death of Software. Nah. We are nowhere near meeting the demand for what software can do. Full article by @stevesi: https://www.a16z.news/p/death-of-software-nah https://www.a16z.news/p/death-of-software-nah"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:41Z 934.3K followers, 41.1K engagements
"When transformative technology works we stop talking about how weird it is. Benedict Evans on how that happens: "There's a chart I did of the number of people employed in the US as elevator attendants which is a perfect bell curve." "First half of the 20th century you deploy a lot of elevators." "Second half of the 20th century they become automatic." "You don't get into an elevator now and say 'it's an electronic elevator'. It's just an elevator." @benedictevans and @balajis on The Network State Podcast"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:45Z 933.9K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says that AI wont replace industries where the "human story" is the core appeal. "Back in [----] the first AI victory over humans was Deep Blue IBM's AI chess model beating Garry Kasparov. It was like the end of chess." "But now the chess industry is bigger than ever. It's like 5x bigger three times as many grand masters. The grand prizes are bigger than ever." "Turns out nobody wants to watch AIs playing chess even though Magnus Carlsen would get destroyed." Source: @vladtenev with @john on @fullsendpodcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019871300500767035"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:30Z 934.3K followers, 70.1K engagements
"We asked ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski what people should take away from the story of ElevenLabs. "One is culture." "We obsess about bringing people that are aligned with how we want to operate day to day whether it's the ownership whether it's the first principles whether it's that striving for excellence but keeping the ego low." "The second thing. you want people that are great in their craft and are passionate about their craft passionate about that work." "If you bring people like this there's actually very little management and very little work that any of the leaders need to do.""
X Link 2026-02-06T22:38Z 933.9K followers, 41.5K engagements
"We asked Mati what will the future look like in [----] when voice is the main interface ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski: "In that future what excites me is you will be almost a lot more immersed in the person-to-person interactions." "You'll be more dedicated to a conversation without technology." "Technology will be there but just will be there in the background. at the same time I think that a lot of the technology around us will be omnipresent." "Whether that's the devices finally working on our terms. whether it's the robot in the future that helps you with the day-to-day tasks." "And here"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:30Z 934.3K followers, 34.9K engagements
"Of course theyre putting ads in AI By Bryan Kim https://www.a16z.news/p/of-course-theyre-putting-ads-in-ai https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS https://www.a16z.news/p/of-course-theyre-putting-ads-in-ai https://t.co/R3NrQ5BUoS"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:19Z 934.3K followers, 65.2K engagements
"a16z GP David George: "You need to adapt to the AI era or die. "On the front end you need to incorporate AI into your product natively and not just attach a chatbot app into your existing workflow." "Reimagine what it can mean with AI and be aggressive about disrupting yourself and changing." "And then on the back end. you need to be fully rolled out with the latest coding models for all of your developers." @DavidGeorge83 @jkhamehl Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:30Z 934.3K followers, 27.7K engagements
"a16z GP David George: "AI is going to be the biggest modelbuster that I've seen in my career." "There are companies that grow faster and longer than anyone would've modeled in any scenario." "Tech. creates value far in excess of the capital that's required to grow." @DavidGeorge83 Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they cover: - Why December [----] was the inflection point for coding - Why "there are no dark GPUs" - How AI revenue is https://t.co/Es2zjc92D9 Product cycles run"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:15Z 934.3K followers, 24.8K engagements
"Crypto provides a counterbalance to AI systems decentralizing something that tends to centralize. So what are builders actually working on And what challenges still need to be solved The @a16zcrypto team shares [--] use cases at the intersection of crypto x AI from universal identity for agents to keeping vibe-coding apps in sync and more. Here is their list and the opportunities still up for grabs 👇"
X Link 2025-06-11T14:31Z 934.3K followers, 146.1K engagements
"Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: The core unlock that could happen with prediction markets is if you forecast the future better you are pricing risk. If you can price risk then you can make better decisions about the risk. And then also you can transfer it you can hedge. And I think that's where the market really really becomes very very large. Source: @mansourtarek_ (CEO @Kalshi) with @MollySOShea on @sourceryvc"
X Link 2025-10-31T21:15Z 934.3K followers, 1.8M engagements
"At Andreessen Horowitz we just raised over $15B. With these new funds including American Dynamism ($1.176B) Apps ($1.7B) Bio + Health ($700M) Infrastructure ($1.7B) Growth ($6.75B) and other venture strategies ($3B) we raised over 18% of all venture capital dollars allocated in the United States in [----]. Why did we raise the money and how do we plan to invest it Read more from Ben Horowitz: https://www.a16z.news/p/we-raised-15b-why https://www.a16z.news/p/we-raised-15b-why"
X Link 2026-01-09T13:46Z 934.3K followers, 988.2K engagements
"Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: I actually think we have achieved AGI. We just need to make it useful. Just apply it to everyday things that we want to do. I think we have all the AGI we need. @databricks CEO @alighodsi at Cal Hacks (UC Berkeley)"
X Link 2026-01-23T21:00Z 934.4K followers, 83.2K engagements
"Biology today is fragmented across PDFs spreadsheets and databases. Humans stitch results together manually often irreproducibly. Designers got Figma. Analysts got Excel. Software engineers got IDEs. Its time biologists get tools that reflect the way science actually works. @phylo_bio is building the first Integrated Biology Environment (IBE) a single place where hypotheses are generated experiments are planned data is analyzed models are run and results are produced in a way thats auditable and reproducible. Phylos cofounders Kexin Huang and Yuanhao Qu are the team for this problem: Kexin"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:12Z 934.4K followers, 103.2K engagements
".@balajis says AI is widening the verification gap. A massive number of jobs will be needed to close it. Prompting floods the world with fakes. Crypto brings back proof. You're gonna need cryptographically hashed posts and crypto IDs . to know the data wasn't tampered with. In the AI era trust has to be engineered. Good post from @balajis on the "verification gap". You could see it as there being two modes in creation. Borrowing GAN terminology: 1) generation and 2) discrimination. e.g. painting - you make a brush stroke (1) and then you look for a while to see if you improved the Good post"
X Link 2025-07-28T19:26Z 934.4K followers, 546.8K engagements
"Frontier model performance improvement across domains: h/t @EpochAIResearch"
X Link 2025-09-24T20:14Z 934.4K followers, 39.3K engagements
"China has overtaken the US in cumulative open-source AI model downloads:"
X Link 2025-10-31T16:45Z 934.4K followers, 358.3K engagements
"Balaji Srinivasan says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships. The founding engineer is the how The founding creator is the why. @balajis"
X Link 2025-11-24T22:50Z 934.4K followers, 715.4K engagements
"Part [--] of Big Ideas [----] with takes from our American Dynamism and Apps teams on what next year holds for tech: https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-2 https://www.a16z.news/p/big-ideas-2026-part-2"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:16Z 934.4K followers, 163.7K engagements
"Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch on the need for open-source AI: If you assume that the entire economy is going to run on AI systems enterprises will just want to make sure that nobody can turn off their systems. If you treat intelligence as electricity then you just want to make sure that your access to intelligence cannot be throttled. "The only way in which you can create systems that are effectively using the folklore knowledge of your employees the knowledge that you've accrued for decades. is to create your own models based on those open-source models." This is a technology which is so"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:49Z 934.4K followers, 288.8K engagements
"The hottest role in tech the forward-deployed engineer was "the ugliest duckling" for a decade. In this conversation Akshay Krishnaswamy Chief Architect of Palantir joins a16z GP Erin Price-Wright to cover: - Why a good team of engineers is like a hive mind - The archetypes of people that thrive as FDEs - Why pain tolerance is a hiring filter - Managing high-agency engineers without hierarchy and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:17 Defining forward-deployed engineering 04:49 Differences between FDE and other roles 06:09 Building and managing teams 09:55 Challenges and evolution of FDE 15:27"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:33Z 934.4K followers, 125.7K engagements
"Marc Andreessen: "There's no theoretical limit on where intelligence goes if you release the limitations of human biology." "I think we're used to living in a world where we don't understand how good good can get because we've been capped by our own biology and we're going to get to experience what it's like when you have the capability at your fingertips that's actually better than human in these domains." "Existing AI models right now are testing around the 130-140 IQ level which means they're going to get to the [---] level." "Would the world be better off or worse off with more or fewer"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:15Z 934.4K followers, 62.5K engagements
"AI investments comprised a historically large share of VC capital in [----]. Ben Horowitz gets at why: "If you have data and you have enough GPUs you can solve almost any problem. It is magic." https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K https://t.co/CV61dCnM7K"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:57Z 934.4K followers, 34.7K engagements
"We absolutely blew the door off of the Turing Test some time in the past few years and the milestone barely registered. We walked through it together surrounded by little gifts everywhere sharing funny memes with each other. Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold by Alex Danco: https://www.a16z.news/p/gift-culture-and-the-intelligence One of the most humans we do at Rites of Passage in our lives is giving gifts to help each other cross thresholds of new responsibility. Every birthday bar mitzvah wedding baby shower has been practice. Were ready for this. https://t.co/cHghxaeB1z"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:43Z 934.4K followers, 44K engagements
"Figma CEO Dylan Field shares six tips for founders: [--]. Dont try to replicate. Understand where you have unique insight. [--]. Have self-awareness. [--]. Be humble. You're going to get punched in the face a lot. If you don't have humility you won't get through it. [--]. Be willing to adapt. [--]. Be greedy in your selection of a problem to work on in the first place. Do not start something that you can't see yourself working on in 10-20 years. Treat it like a multi-decade journey from the beginning. [--]. Get started. Source: @zoink on @ProfGMarkets https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019477489651966072"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:25Z 934.4K followers, 61.8K engagements
"Search Wars: Episode II AI agents are poised to browse more of the internet than humans ever will. That shift breaks the old search stack and creates a new platform war over who gets to index the web for AI. Read the full piece: @JenniferHli @sarahdingwang @JasonSCui @steph_zhang https://a16z.substack.com/p/search-wars-episode-2 https://a16z.substack.com/p/search-wars-episode-2"
X Link 2025-11-13T15:15Z 934.4K followers, 53.8K engagements
"Were co-leading the $475M seed round for Unconventional AI a research lab tackling the moonshot of highly efficient AI-first chips. CEO Naveen Rao has sold two companies previously and were excited to be partnering with him in his next endeavor. He joined a16zs Matt Bornstein at NeurIPS for a conversation on starting a new chip company what better chips would mean for AGI why Naveen is so passionate about this mission and more. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Exploring hardware for running AI workloads 02:02 Why Naveen built lots of software in a "hardware company" 03:22 Why start a new chip company 05:13"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:45Z 934.4K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Marc Andreessen on why perseverance matters: @pmarca"
X Link 2025-12-26T17:01Z 934.4K followers, 364K engagements
"By Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz At Andreessen Horowitz we just raised over $15B. With these new funds including American Dynamism ($1.176B) Apps ($1.7B) Bio + Health ($700M) Infrastructure ($1.7B) http://x.com/i/article/2009607020563836929 http://x.com/i/article/2009607020563836929"
X Link 2026-01-09T13:12Z 934.4K followers, 2.9M engagements
"It's time to build"
X Link 2026-01-09T14:30Z 934.4K followers, 2.8M engagements
"The culture document written by @bhorowitz that every a16z new hire signs: We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the culture document that says you'll adhere to https://t.co/LMnWcz1q75 We are dream builders. Were not dream killers. Ben Horowitz on a16z's written culture that forbids publicly attacking founders or startups: We have a culture that is written culture. You cannot join the firm unless you sign the"
X Link 2026-01-15T22:02Z 934.4K followers, 478.1K engagements
"Theres a Mexican standoff happening between product manager designer and coder. Marc Andreessen on how AI is reshaping core tech roles: Every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer because they have AI. Every product manager thinks they can be a coder and a designer. And every designer knows they can be a product manager and a coder. People in each of those roles now know or believe that with AI they dont need the other two roles anymore. @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016994954422407300"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:00Z 934.4K followers, 426.3K engagements
""Last year the four largest companies contributed 1% to GDP growth with their $400 billion of spending." In this conversation with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Ben Horowitz and David Haber they cover: - Why the best time to raise money is when no one has money - Why this could be the biggest M&A year in history - What makes the AI supercycle different - Why some companies are growing at unprecedented rates - AI & crypto policy and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:09 Goldman's evolution from partnership to public company 15:33 "As sweet a spot" as Solomon has seen in [--] years 19:00 M&A outlook:"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:58Z 934.4K followers, 395.3K engagements
"Vibe coding promised to democratize software engineering. We're living through a golden age of software. But the people drawn to vibe coding are largely developers founders designers and PMs. Theyre daily active users of X fans of Karpathys YouTube videos or regular listeners to Dwarkesh. They know what a terminal is. Most people can't vibe code. Here's how we fix that: By Justine Moore https://www.a16z.news/p/most-people-cant-vibe-code-heres https://t.co/xc9Um0cA50 https://www.a16z.news/p/most-people-cant-vibe-code-heres https://t.co/xc9Um0cA50"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:21Z 934.4K followers, 182.1K engagements
"Ben Horowitz says top AI researchers command billion-dollar price tags because there are only a handful of people in the world who can do the job. "You cant learn it in school because its a little bit alchemistic in nature. Its a little bit of an art." "From the outside world it probably looked absolutely bananas. Why is somebody paying a hundred million dollars for an AI researcher or a billion dollars for an AI researcher" "Well what if there were only [--] of them in the world Then it kind of changes the math on it a little bit." "I think thats sort of where we were. Its the first time weve"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:30Z 934.4K followers, 83.1K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on the untapped potential of AI agents: "You could have an AI bot that basically raises money to make a movie and then spends the money on image generation and sound generation." "Maybe even hiring actors. set designers or graphic artists or. sound effects people musicians." "Or let's take a more serious case. you could have an AI bot that's doing protein folding and literally coming up with cures doing personalized medicine for cancer patients." "You could easily imagine having an economic mechanism for that. hypothetically you could have the equivalent of like a GoFundMe but"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:54Z 934.4K followers, 300.3K engagements
"Ben Horowitz says Silicon Valley cant be recreated anywhere else in the world because of America's unique culture: "I go all over the world and everybody wants Silicon Valley like how can we have Silicon Valley in the UK How can we have it in France" "They have a lot of the ingredients. They have great talent. Theyve got great universities." "But theres a cultural challenge where succeeding doing something larger than yourself making the world a better place those arent things that young people feel like society values." "So the likelihood if youre building a company of getting people to work"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:55Z 934.4K followers, 110.5K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does "The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully deeply understand what the company does and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it." "To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work deeply understanding the issues and being the key lead problem solver in the organization." "What Elon does ishe shows up every week at each of his companies he identifies"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:22Z 934.4K followers, 135K engagements
"Top apps for men and women More mobile charts: https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile https://www.a16z.news/p/best-of-the-best-of-mobile"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:00Z 934.4K followers, 362.2K engagements
"ElevenLabs started as a weekend project. They crossed $330M ARR in [----] as they build the voice interface of the future. This is the ElevenLabs story. An a16z Original"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:01Z 934.4K followers, 347.5K engagements
"Product cycles run 10-15 yearsand AI's cycle is still just beginning. In this conversation with a16z's David George and Jen Kha on the state of markets they cover: - Why December [----] was the inflection point for coding - Why "there are no dark GPUs" - How AI revenue is growing faster than 100% year-over-year - Why OpenAI and Anthropic added nearly half the revenue of the entire public software industry in one year .and more. 00:00 Introduction 02:25 [----] revenue data: 693% growth and why unicorns are real 04:25 Why AI companies outgrow SaaS while spending less 07:15 Adapt or die: Coding"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:57Z 934.4K followers, 90K engagements
"Marc Andreessen: The VC business is a game of outliers. "We have this conceptinvest in strength vs. lack of weakness." "The default way to do venture capital is to check boxes: really good founder really good idea really good product really good initial customers. Check check check check." "But what you find with those checkbox deals is they often don't have something that makes them really remarkable and special. They don't have an extreme strength that makes them an outlier." "On the other side the companies that have really extreme strengths often have serious flaws. So one of the"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:52Z 934.4K followers, 82K engagements
"Elon Musk on what he looks for when hiring: "Evidence of exceptional ability." "Dont look at the resume. Just believe your interaction." "The resume may seem very impressive and its like 'Wow the resume looks good.' But if the conversation after [--] minutes is not 'wow' you should believe the conversation not the paper." Source: @elonmusk with Stripes @collision and @dwarkesh_sp https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021049085688676761 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021049085688676761"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:30Z 934.4K followers, 171.3K engagements
"Ben Horowitz: "It's the best thing in the world for people to try to do something larger than yourself." "Why wouldn't you want to fund as much of that as you can" Read The Case for Scaling Venture: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:51Z 934.4K followers, 35.2K engagements
".@pmarca on Moltbook the social network for AI agents: "All of the science fiction novels basically have AI either being super utopian or super dystopian but they never have this incredible sense of humor aspect which is what we're actually gettingwhere people are just using everything as fodder for memes." "Moltbook is saturated with all of these incredibly funny memes. It's actually quite unclear which ones are real and which ones aren't." "There's an AI agent on Moltbook that has decided to create an AI religion. And at least as of today it had hired a single human worker to walk the"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:27Z 934.4K followers, 148.3K engagements
"Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt which says 'Its always sunny in space.'" "In [--] months (but probably closer to [--] months) the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space." "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the suns power are you harnessing you realize you have to go to space." Source: @elonmusk with Stripes"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:45Z 934.4K followers, 396.1K engagements
"Elon Musk on how he moves so fast: "I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor." "I generally try to aim for a deadline that I at least think is at the 50th percentile. So it's not like an impossible deadline but it's the most aggressive deadline I can think of that could be achieved with 50% probability. Which means that it'll be late half the time." "A maniacal sense of urgency is a very big deal. You want to have an aggressive schedule. And then you want to figure out what the limiting factor is at any point in time and and help the team address that limiting factor." Source: @elonmusk"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:15Z 934.4K followers, 1M engagements
""Weve heard tell of San Francisco as a new Florence an innovation cluster a city on fire In many ways we supersede Florence though in critical ways we fall dramatically behind." Ross Calvin for a16z Culture on the paradox of California where "Exit" is identity: @rosswcalvin https://www.a16z.news/p/im-out-whos-with-me-exit-as-an-organizing https://www.a16z.news/p/im-out-whos-with-me-exit-as-an-organizing"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:29Z 934.4K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Venture is becoming go big or go niche. a16z GP Alex Rampell: "The hard thing is to be a midsize generalist because then you're largely going to lose to the big generalists or the small specialists." The Case for Scaling Venture by @eriktorenberg: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P https://www.a16z.news/p/the-case-for-scaling-venture https://t.co/WFYEEDaq4P"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:55Z 934.4K followers, 40.5K engagements
"Marc Andreessen on the undecided future of AI: "You can paint this picture that says the AI model companies are going to basically own everything." "You can also look at it and say. the whole thing's going to get eaten by open source. Or by China. Or by a combination of open source and China." "We're only [--] years into probably a 30-year shift. And I actually think we don't know yet." @pmarca at Cisco AI Summit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021732347511734401 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021732347511734401"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:45Z 934.4K followers, 58.7K engagements
"David Ulevitch on how AI is transforming energy defense and logistics: "If you start at the most fundamental level energywe have an insatiable thirst for energy in this country and AI compute is driving a huge amount of it." "AI compute will then power lots of things. It's not just going to power ChatGPT but it's going to power autonomy systems all kinds of other language models and all other kinds of use cases." "If you look at defense computer vision is transforming the battlefield." "Then you see AI transforming logistics. flight operations and planning using AI so you can have the most"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:25Z 934.4K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Startups need preferential attachment. Here's how to get it: [--]. Find the people who are aligned with your brand and who could be giving something valuable away to the people you want to reach. [--]. Give those people something useful to build their own brands. Give them a platform open doors for them do anything to be useful for them. The Lighthouse Playbook by David Booth: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-lighthouse-playbook https://t.co/I91fssS7Ti https://www.a16z.news/p/the-lighthouse-playbook https://t.co/I91fssS7Ti"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:32Z 934.4K followers, 84.8K engagements
"Anish Acharya's request for a startup: an AI companion that plays Minecraft with his son. "One of the products that I would love to exist. is what I call a contextual companion for my son who plays Minecraft." "You know the other kids playing Minecraft may or may not be the best influenceoften not the best influence." "There's this context in which they interact and I don't know just sort of models pro-social behaviors and is still cool and chill." "I think there's a lot of room for teaching through these types of relationships and technology can help provide that." Source: @illscience on"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:27Z 934.4K followers, 47.8K engagements
"Space Dynamism Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other https://t.co/kxfG1yhgWh Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "Its harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "Youre going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground and you dont need batteries. I almost wore my other"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:45Z 934.4K followers, 41.1K engagements
""The next war is actually going to be fought in space." Katherine Boyle on investing in space defense: "We need to be thinking about attritable systems in space. We need to be thinking about offensive capabilities. We need to be thinking about how Golden Dome can potentially be a part of that." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022111412336861519 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022111412336861519"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:51Z 934.4K followers, 28.1K engagements
"% of workday spent sitting by job Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-customer-service"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:42Z 934.4K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Katherine Boyle: "The defense industrial base in some ways is the reason why America is so strong and is so mighty." "Technology is the backbone of what makes America strong." "If we don't apply that to our national security and our national interest we lose a lot of that competitive nature." Source: @KTmBoyle with @WSJ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022381787096486240 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022381787096486240"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:46Z 934.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Balaji Srinivasan on "The Great Firewall": "Digital borders and physical borders are the same thing." "The Great Firewall will be seen in some ways as a very farsighted thing because it is digital hard borders." "People won't be able to script drones on Chinese soil. They wont be able to script humanoids on Chinese soil." @balajis and @danwwang on Network State Podcast https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022453766826676436 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022453766826676436"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:32Z 934.4K followers, 31.8K engagements
"Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis: "Our vision of the future is every moving machine will be intelligent." "Self-driving is one part of that intelligence. Its not the whole thing." "Once you have a beefy central compute you can do a lot more things with it." "Just think about this dumb car or this dumb tank becoming more like your phone." @qasar on Uncapped with @jaltma https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022476316499730888 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022476316499730888"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:01Z 934.4K followers, 17.7K engagements
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