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IT: The 6T Industry that Silicon Valley Hardly Ever Thinks About

The Largest Market in Technology is Stuck in the Past

Mar 31 • Peter Doyle

Every Building You've Ever Been In Was Designed By Software Built in 1997

Attacking a $13 Trillion Market

Mar 30 • Joe Schmidt IV, David Haber, Caroline, and Zabie Elmgren

The Energy Situation, Explained for Tech People

There is no failover for the Strait of Hormuz

Mar 27 • Michael Spyker

The Trust Wall: Why AI’s Next Billion Users Will Come Through Trust Networks

Lessons from YouTube’s Global Expansion

Mar 26 • Sakina Arsiwala

There are only two paths left for software

Grow 10 or earn 40, no middle path is left

Mar 23 • David George

America

America’s Energy Problem Isn’t Supply. It’s Delivery.

Why solid-state transformers are critical for an affordable and scalable grid.

5 hrs ago • Andrew Baglino

Copper One: The World's Only Autonomy-First Mine & Refinery

Physical AI at scale

Mar 19 • Turner Caldwell

Jared Isaacman: Introducing NASA Force

From the American Dynamism 2026 Summit

Mar 5 • a16z

Emil Michael's "Holy Cow" moment with AI vendors

From the American Dynamism 2026 Summit

Mar 4 • a16z

Technology

Every Building You've Ever Been In Was Designed By Software Built in 1997

Attacking a $13 Trillion Market

Mar 30 • Joe Schmidt IV, David Haber, Caroline, and Zabie Elmgren

Why We Founded Airbase

The entire modern world runs on an invisible resource.

Mar 25 • Ari Rosner and Millen Anand

Robotics Needs Fewer Roboticists*

*per capita. A case for deploying intelligent manipulators today.

Mar 25 • Jacob Zietek

Investing in Deeptune

a16z leads Deeptune's $43M Series A

Mar 19 • Marco Mascorro and Martin Casado

Opinion

IT: The 6T Industry that Silicon Valley Hardly Ever Thinks About

The Largest Market in Technology is Stuck in the Past

Mar 31 • Peter Doyle

The Trust Wall: Why AI’s Next Billion Users Will Come Through Trust Networks

Lessons from YouTube’s Global Expansion

Mar 26 • Sakina Arsiwala

The Truth about Venture Capitalists (in 2007)

A classic post from the pmarchive

Mar 25 • a16z

There are only two paths left for software

Grow 10 or earn 40, no middle path is left

Mar 23 • David George

Culture

New Media Fellowship: apply for the 2nd cohort!

This next fellowship will kick off in April 2026 for a new group of 65 fellows

Mar 6 • Katie Kirsch, Erik Torenberg, Brent Liang, and Henry Williams

Infinite Jest belongs in the Techno-Optimist Canon

A16Z Culture's most controversial book recommendation so far

Feb 25 • Alex Danco

"I'm out, who's with me?": 'Exit' as an organizing idea

A guest post for a16z Culture

Feb 11 • Ross Calvin

Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold

We've practiced for this AI rite of passage our entire lives

Feb 4 • Alex Danco

Charts

The Energy Situation, Explained for Tech People

There is no failover for the Strait of Hormuz

Mar 27 • Michael Spyker

Revolut: The Algorithm That Keeps Compounding

Inside Revolut's 2025 Annual Report

Mar 24 • Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez

Charts of the Week: Learning to Weld

The puzzle of youth employment; AI native small business; Who do you think you are, Mr. Big Short?

Mar 20 • a16z New Media

Charts of the Week: Monitoring the Situation in Hormuz

It’s an atom’s world, and bits are just livin’ in it; Ridesharing isn’t necessarily caring

Mar 13 • a16z New Media

About Us

The Power Brokers

A guest special by Packy McCormick of Not Boring

Jan 9 • Packy McCormick

We raised $15B. Why?

What's next up for a16z

Jan 9 • Ben Horowitz

Introducing a16z Build

A dinner series and community for experienced idea-stage founders, technologists, and operators

Dec 12, 2025 • David Booth, Katie Kirsch, and Erik Torenberg

What is New Media?

An important part of a16z’s origin story, which you may already know, is that we were founded by Marc & Ben to be “CAA for the tech industry.” When…

Nov 6, 2025 • Alex Danco, Brent Liang, Henry Williams, and Erik Torenberg

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