While most consumer AI applications currently focus on productivity and search replacement, significant opportunities exist in network-based categories like dating, recruiting, social AI, and marketplaces such as shopping and home buying, according to a16z General Partner Olivia Moore and a16z Growth Partner Josh Elman.
Cisco’s president and chief product officer argues that companies will delegate consequential work to AI only if they can trust and control its actions.
Lio co-founder Vladimir Keil and a16z partner Sema Amble argue that AI-native companies can compete by handling work scattered beyond traditional systems of record.
The OpenRouter co-founder argues that narrowly defined decision models can check agent actions against company policies, rather than relying on one general-purpose model for everything.
Jeetu Patel and Jared Friedman discuss how Cisco is approaching AI, including its impact on engineering jobs and the broader market.
Founders often discuss their email pipeline and the reasons behind receiving zero replies to their cold emails.
A product’s true value is measured by its ability to retain users over time, indicated by a flattening cohort retention curve.
Vercel is pioneering an AI-powered go-to-market approach, drastically reducing human sales and support teams by integrating AI agents for qualification and resolution. This post also explores a contrarian view on traditional one-on-one meetings, advocating for real-time, asynchronous communication over scheduled discussions.
This post explores two core ideas: first, that building a business from one’s authentic truth, rather than solely from customer feedback, leads to more innovative and sustainable ventures; and second, that embracing failure as a crucial part of growth is more important than avoiding it.
The advent of AI agents will dismantle the traditional advertising business model, requiring content creators to be compensated for the marginal utility their information provides to agents.
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