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# ![@a16z Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::64844802.png) @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.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #1 [countries](/list/countries)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [finance](/list/finance)  [stocks](/list/stocks) 

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #1055, [ceo](/topic/ceo) #54, [ben](/topic/ben) #1017, [future](/topic/future) #3050, [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #1361, [spacex](/topic/spacex) #361, [if you](/topic/if-you), [murder](/topic/murder) #1575, [future of](/topic/future-of) #108, [china](/topic/china) #1139

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@bhorowitz](/creator/undefined) [@martincasado](/creator/undefined) [@eriktorenberg](/creator/undefined) [@omooretweets](/creator/undefined) [@venturetwins](/creator/undefined) [@anjneymidha](/creator/undefined) [@ktmboyle](/creator/undefined) [@dhaber](/creator/undefined) [@jenniferhli](/creator/undefined) [@illscience](/creator/undefined) [@cdixon](/creator/undefined) [@a16zcrypto](/creator/undefined) [@techweek](/creator/undefined) [@arampell](/creator/undefined) [@vijaypande](/creator/undefined) [@sarahdingwang](/creator/undefined) [@davidgeorge83](/creator/undefined) [@seemaamble](/creator/undefined) [@julesyoo](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Movement (MOVE)](/topic/move-movement) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (EDR)](/topic/$edr)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Marc Andreessen says that America's strategic advantage lies not in mimicking China's centralized system but in doubling down on what we're good at: What if we become more like us And what if we lean even harder into innovation and even harder into creativity and even harder into entrepreneurship And isn't there so much more that we could do if we got to be more like us @pmarca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991291732676559018)  2025-11-19T23:45Z 905K followers, 251.6K engagements


"Alex Rampell on why AI is still underhyped and how it will diffuse inside companies. Not to oversimplify human behavior but its I want to be lazy and I want to be rich. Theres somebody at every big company who has figured out I can do something in one minute that used to take eight hours. Companies should spotlight these people and spread their discoveries across the org. @arampell with @rfradin (@Larridin CEO) Watch the full episode:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996006068888240407)  2025-12-02T23:58Z 905K followers, 39.5K engagements


"Ben Horowitz on the standout skill required to be an exceptional CEO: Don't hesitate to make the hard decision when you see the truth. You could be really really smart but if you wait too long before you pull the trigger youre not smart anymore. The real killer is the non-decision. As Ben once said: You need to run towards the pain and darkness and not away from it." Source: @bhorowitz on My First Million with @ShaanVP and @thesamparr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996365158965551266)  2025-12-03T23:45Z 905K followers, 96.1K engagements


"100 trillion token analysis of reasoning model usage over time Full piece from @MaikaThoughts @AnjneyMidha @xanderatallah and @cclark:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996670913996259400)  2025-12-04T20:00Z 905K followers, 52.8K 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 905K followers, 29.3K 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/1930292331598496178)  2025-06-04T15:55Z 905K followers, 7666 engagements


"Two paths. Two futures. Teaching sand to think or being left in the dust. Welcome to Runtime 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1981074692443427321)  2025-10-22T19:06Z 904.4K followers, 296.4K engagements


"What big ideas will define 2025 and beyond Here are highlights of some of our big ideas for the year ahead. 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1864773011725079006)  2024-12-05T20:45Z 904.7K followers, 377.1K engagements


"OpenAI is projecting historically unprecedented growth to $XXX billion in revenue:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1982484887342129412)  2025-10-26T16:30Z 904.7K followers, 284.6K engagements


"Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis: A founder is not made when you decide to start a company or even when you raise money." "A founder is made when you get feedback and interpret it correctly about the product and the market." Source: @AppliedInt CEO @qasar with @brettberson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1990888835056800025)  2025-11-18T21:04Z 904.6K followers, 18.7K engagements


".@pmarca wrote Why Software Is Eating the World in one draft and it went on to become a canonical piece of tech writing. Almost a decade later when he wrote It's Time to Build no one would publish it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993749256726040809)  2025-11-26T18:30Z 904.6K followers, 28.4K engagements


"World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li on how AI can generate infinite 3D worlds. With this technology we can actually create infinite universes. It suddenly will enable us to live in a multiverse way. @drfeifei @theworldlabs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993824976475181060)  2025-11-26T23:31Z 904.6K followers, 40.5K engagements


"Large-scale infrastructure buildout is essential to the next decade of American Dynamism. Making it happen will require leaps in capabilities; construction projects today are often slower and more expensive than they were XX years ago. Americas spirit of speed precision and ambition has been swallowed by incremental risk-averse and expensive processes. Unlimited Industries is a vertically integrated AI-native platform that designs and builds critical infrastructure like power plants factories and data centers from end-to-end. Unlike the status quo of misaligned cost-plus contracts Unlimited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996275743995953363)  2025-12-03T17:50Z 904.5K followers, 36.4K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1927766844062011834)  2025-05-28T16:40Z 905K followers, 647K engagements


"Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset and Marc Andreessen thinks its long overdue. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation Marc joins Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle to dissect the past decade of filmmaking from the rise of the message in every movie to the return of genuine comedy and art. They cover the post-woke shift in Hollywood the financial collapse of the streaming era and why AI could spark a renaissance for a new generation of independent filmmakers. 00:00 Movies as modern myths 03:53 Why movies still matter 07:03 Taylor Swift Scorsese & cultural"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1979221135012303000)  2025-10-17T16:21Z 905K followers, 735K 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 905K followers, 345.3K engagements


"David Sacks on Polytheistic AI Better Crypto Regulation Beating China and Fixing SF David Sacks is the White House AI and Crypto Czar. He joined a16zs Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg for a conversation covering the importance of beating China in the AI race the need for a federal standard for crypto regulation how AI doomerism is replacing climate doomerism how to solve the energy bottleneck in AI development the path to fixing San Francisco and more. 00:00 The state of AI and crypto policy 16:20 Orwellian AI and the real risks of AI 32:26 AI capabilities and pullback from AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1985373072296202274)  2025-11-03T15:46Z 905K followers, 2.2M 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 905K followers, 811.4K engagements


"Two ways AI has changed tech scenes: - The opportunity cost of being anywhere other than SF is back to all-time highs. - Its now much easier for an A-player who wants to stay local to simply start a one-person business and grow it themselves. Full piece:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1995964954009333913)  2025-12-02T21:15Z 904.8K followers, 22.3K engagements


"Why are hyperlinks blue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1972027557685141716)  2025-09-27T19:56Z 905K followers, 7.6M engagements


"Sam Altman on Sora Energy and Building an AI Empire From GPT-5 to Sora OpenAI has been making a dizzying amount of bets recently. It now acts as a frontier AGI research lab a big tech product company with nearly a billion users and a driver of the largest infrastructure buildout in history all in one - plus its made partnerships with Microsoft Nvidia Oracle AMD SoftBank Oracle and even the US government. We talked to Sam Altman about the core thesis bringing OpenAIs bets together why they released Sora how they use models internally the most informative evals for assessing AI progress and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975936843909828914)  2025-10-08T14:50Z 905K followers, 1.3M engagements


"HVAC has beaten out semiconductors computers/servers and data centers as the biggest winner of net-new hardware spending since 2022"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1981839381121159514)  2025-10-24T21:45Z 905K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made In this episode we sat down with Google DeepMinds Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova to discuss how Nano Banana was created why it became so viral and whats in store for the future of image and video editing. 00:00 Intro 02:00 The origin of Nano Banana 06:20 Seeing yourself in AI 11:00 Control & character consistency 17:10 AI in education and visual learning 24:10 2D vs 3D: Debate over world models 31:10 The Japan phenomenon 35:00 From images to video 41:00 Working with artists 47:30 The next era of image models 53:50 Closing thoughts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1983226711367135360)  2025-10-28T17:37Z 905K followers, 92.5K 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 905K followers, 1.8M engagements


"David Sacks says the biggest risk of AI was described not by James Cameron in The Terminator but by George Orwell in 1984. 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 1984. @DavidSacks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1985413352349413542)  2025-11-03T18:26Z 905K followers, 16.3M engagements


"The a16z infra team's book recommendations (heavy on sci-fi)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1990809118639337567)  2025-11-18T15:47Z 905K followers, 86.4K engagements


"American Dynamism made working with the government cool again: - Tech realizes defense matters - Companies like SpaceX and Anduril have proven startups can sell to the government - America has to build in the physical world to stay dominant David Ulevitch Katherine Boyle and Erik Torenberg join Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to cover the origins of American Dynamism and where it's going including Silicon Valley's roots in defense the importance of American values winning globally and how a special breed of founders is building for American Dynamism. 00:00 Intro 01:32 When Katherine Boyle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991218101980131605)  2025-11-19T18:52Z 905K followers, 310.5K engagements


"Marc Andreessen explains that America can win the future of manufacturing by building the advanced products of the future in highly automated factories that create well-paying high-skilled blue-collar-plus jobs: What you have is a large number of jobs that are call them blue-collar-plus jobs and then also white-collar jobs and all the associated service jobs around those that are building and maintaining that new kind of plant to build that new kind of thing. I think what you can do is you can leap forward on the nature of the product youre building. By the way if we dont do that all of those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991563574683255150)  2025-11-20T17:45Z 905K followers, 124.7K 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 X of this doubleheader from Michael Spyker teaching us everything we need to know about the resource powering AI: @ShaleTier7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1991952761412546914)  2025-11-21T19:32Z 905K followers, 266.7K engagements


"Marc Andreessen: The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power. There are so few people who will just write down the thing. Source: @pmarca on How I Write with @david_perell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993050559314903405)  2025-11-24T20:14Z 905K followers, 225.5K 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 905K followers, 696.9K engagements


"Marc Andreessens advice to small business owners on how AI can turn them into far more capable operators. Heres my staffing schedule what do you think of it Heres the last hundred emails weve gotten from customers what are the patterns of that You basically turn the AI into a thought partner. Its like having the worlds best coach mentor therapist advisor board member but its infinitely patient. Source: @pmarca on @NextUpHalperin Full episode:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993334110216179850)  2025-11-25T15:01Z 905K followers, 178.5K engagements


"Marc Andreessen on the inversion of technology adoption of AI. It took XX years for basically technology to cascade down from the largest organizations in the world to small businesses and to the individual. This technology AI is going the opposite. Consumers are adapting the fastest. Small businesses are then adopting right after that. Government is the late adopter. Source: @pmarca on @NextUpHalperin Full episode:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993409519809184251)  2025-11-25T20:00Z 905K followers, 49.1K engagements


"Marc Andreessen posted: High IQ experts work for mid IQ generalists. We asked him to elaborate. We probably all underrate intelligence The people who are in the fields that involve intelligence probably overrate intelligence. @pmarca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993456190035312656)  2025-11-25T23:06Z 905K followers, 137.2K engagements


"Anduril CEO @SchimpfBrian: The US capital market structure isnt XX% better than anyone else. Its several thousand times better. @pmarca: Imagine if we could be as sophisticated at manufacturing and industrial systems as we are in data centers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993494025429828063)  2025-11-26T01:36Z 905K followers, 46.3K engagements


"Rick Rubin says vibe coding is the punk rock of coding. @RickRubin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1993788910087098469)  2025-11-26T21:08Z 905K followers, 123.2K 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 905K followers, 180.8K engagements


"Sam Altman says OpenAI is making a very aggressive infrastructure bet with new partnerships coming across energy chips and distribution. If were right about where model capability is going the economic value can go very very far. @sama"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1994466783420715489)  2025-11-28T18:01Z 905K followers, 421.3K 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 905K followers, 424.3K engagements


"Gigawatt-scale data centers can likely be built in X years or less"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1995538428684087439)  2025-12-01T17:00Z 905K followers, 33K engagements


"How OpenAI Builds for XXX Million Weekly Active Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning We sat down with Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering at OpenAI Platform to discuss OpenAIs developer strategy how to manage top ML teams why they decided to start releasing open-weight models again how prompt engineering has evolved over time and how developer tools will shift to accommodate better agents moving forward. 00:00 Introduction 8:36 Horizontal vs vertical OpenAI 12:18 Why you cant disintermediate the model 15:11 People build relationships with models 17:30 Not one AGI model but many 20:10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1995569973687660783)  2025-12-01T19:05Z 905K followers, 112.3K engagements


"Data centers are getting really big really quickly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1995629012337758560)  2025-12-01T23:00Z 905K followers, 70.6K engagements


"Ben Horowitz shares the management technique he learned from Andy Grove to unstick projects that have fallen off track. Schedule a daily 8:00 a.m. meeting with team members to force every hidden blocker into the open. Once people are forced to explain why work isnt moving the real issues surface fast. Most of the time the blockers are shockingly simple like confusion permission gaps or basic miscommunication. By manually tightening communication leaders reset the system and create persistent momentum. Source: @bhorowitz on @myfirstmilpod with @ShaanVP and @thesamparr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1995944302791590082)  2025-12-02T19:52Z 905K followers, 244.7K engagements


"Software is eating labor & moats still matter: AI can do cheaply what has never been worth a person's time. Whole verticals have opened up and unlike in previous product cycles AI can actually complete work end-to-end. a16z GPs David Haber Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg sat down for a conversation on how AI changed software and what fundamentals still hold true. They cover why moats still matter the "greenfield strategies" that AI makes possible the difference between differentiation & defensibility why context is king and more. 0:00 Intro 1:12 Why moats still matter 8:48 Why you won't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996241558987853854)  2025-12-03T15:34Z 905K followers, 60K engagements


"The look and feel of AI-generated images and applications has become familiar. Over the past year a new aesthetic has quietly emerged at startups and across the internet: a bright diagram-driven hyper-responsive design language that captures the spirit of human-to-machine interaction. Its called paperclip-punk. More from @VirtualElena:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996291730816278698)  2025-12-03T18:53Z 905K followers, 16.5K engagements


"Alex Rampell argues that instead of replacing workers AI unlocks work that was never done because hiring humans was too costly or too slow. If I could hire somebody for a dollar to do this task I would a hundred percent do that. I cannot hire somebody for a dollar. Now I can hire software for a dollar. Lower the cost and entirely new work becomes possible. @arampell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996304780248195443)  2025-12-03T19:45Z 905K followers, 26.2K engagements


"Ben Horowitzs father taught him the most valuable lesson of his life after he unfairly lost a relay race: Life isnt fair. "I see young people wreck themselves so much because they have an expectation that something about life is gonna be fair. The way you succeed is you don't have that expectation. You just deal with it as it is." Source: @bhorowitz on @myfirstmilpod with @ShaanVP and @thesamparr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996331250626474000)  2025-12-03T21:30Z 905K followers, 70.8K engagements


"a16z Growth Fund Head David George sums up his investment philosophy: I like to pay fair prices for great companies. The art in that I think is recognizing where greatness may lie where other people don't recognize that. In growth-stage investing precise forecasts unit economics or business models are table stakes analyses that dont create real edge. True advantage comes from superior product insights market insights and people insights. Source: @DavidGeorge83 on @InvestLikeBest with @patrick_oshag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996391587522465903)  2025-12-04T01:30Z 905K followers, 52.2K engagements


"a16z Growth GP David George explains the technical terminator founder archetype. These are founders who begin as elite technologists live deep in the product and only later prove they can dominate commercially. A prime example is Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi (@alighodsi) who has been with Databricks since it grew out of a small technical team developing an open-source project. Grounding in technology enables technical terminators to figure out the next product area before others. Source: @DavidGeorge83 on @InvestLikeBest with @patrick_oshag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996625675697193044)  2025-12-04T17:00Z 905K followers, 25K engagements


"David Ulevitch says that reversing America's reliance on Chinese supply chains is likely of the utmost criticality to our national security. Our greatest adversary is our strongest economic partner at the same time which is just an incredibly challenging situation to be in. It does not allow America to be the leader I think that it needs to be. Source: @davidu on @CSISs Betting on America with @NGirishankar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996709184352801080)  2025-12-04T22:32Z 905K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Ben Horowitz says AI video is a new medium entirely. The kinds of stories you can tell change completely when shots that once cost $XXX million become trivial to create. Directors could one day use AI to generate whole scenes reshoot performances or have an AI version of an actor deliver a take so flawless that even the actor cant tell it wasnt them. There's gonna be white space for not only new creatives but new entertainment entrepreneurs and so forth that nobody is really imagining now. Source: @bhorowitz on @myfirstmilpod with @ShaanVP and @thesamparr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1996976694130008151)  2025-12-05T16:15Z 905K followers, 55.1K engagements


"Notes on building in the AI era (plus how a16z operates)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1997055902885859381)  2025-12-05T21:30Z 905K followers, 92.8K engagements


"How Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros changes the media company pecking order More charts of the week:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1997089868196073955)  2025-12-05T23:45Z 905K followers, 231.2K engagements


"David Ulevitch says America must prioritize its asymmetric advantages over direct competition with China. I don't think we can actually win in our shipbuilding capabilities against China. They have such a huge advantage and head start but maybe we can build XXX hypersonic missiles that can't be intercepted that can just take out those XXX ships. Let's beat China in the games they can't win and that America can win. Source: @davidu on @CSISs Betting on America with @NGirishankar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998045010651169005)  2025-12-08T15:00Z 905K followers, 49.9K 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 905K followers, 1.5M engagements


"The Cinderella Glass Slipper effect: when AI products find better retention among earlier user cohorts Full deep dive:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998101535411372392)  2025-12-08T18:45Z 905K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Were leading Pryzms $12M Seed round. Federal procurement is a broken process. Complex confusing rules and layers of oversight lead to months of burdensome work that distract companies from building the technology that keeps America safe. Pryzm is fixing this: Pryzm is the AI operating system for federal procurement. It provides a shared platform for both government and industry that compresses months of work into minutes. And their system is already authorized to support sensitive capture and acquisition workflows. Pryzms cofounders include alumni of Palantir and Lockheed Martin and they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998385881305280562)  2025-12-09T13:34Z 905K followers, 43.3K engagements


"Our healthcare system makes life-saving therapies exceedingly expensive. Treatments that generate benefits for a lifetime have to be paid for upfront. Rounds and rounds of prior authorizations and negotiations between care providers and payers needlessly delay patient care. Thats why Aradigm Health is building the cure-first future of healthcare coverage. By pooling risk across employers and insurers convening specialized provider networks and orchestrating the entire patient journey they're making million-dollar cell and gene therapies actually accessible turning breakthrough science into"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998418632888758340)  2025-12-09T15:45Z 905K followers, 20.8K engagements


"We asked a16z's investors for their takes on the biggest problems builders will tackle in 2026. Here's part X of Big Ideas 2026:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998433730445324715)  2025-12-09T16:45Z 905K followers, 169K engagements


"Big upward revision to US data-center power demand forecasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998463928356188417)  2025-12-09T18:45Z 905K followers, 36K engagements


"If you can't join 'em beat 'em: an inverse relationship between hiring rate and entrepreneurship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1998482822449999875)  2025-12-09T20:00Z 905K followers, 15.6K engagements