Archive - a16z

Charts of the Week: It Was a Good Quarter for "Other Income"

The Slop Surplus; Call Centers, Not Dead Yet; In AI, Great Products Win Fast

May 8 • a16z New Media

How an AI Bill Becomes a Law

The question is no longer whether Congress is interested in AI legislation. It is whether the political conditions will align to move a proposal.

May 7 • Ben Napier and Matt Perault

Investing in Ethos

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts

May 6 • Anish A, James da Costa, and Olivia Moore

The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy

No evidence, no imagination, no understanding of humans

May 6 • David George

Meet the a16z Growth Engineer Fellows

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts

May 6 • Erik Torenberg, Katie Kirsch, and David Booth

System Integration as Software

The technology to do this differently has only just arrived

May 5 • Kabir Nagrecha

Investing in Tessera Labs

a16z Invests in Terrera's Series A

May 5 • Seema Amble, Eric Zhou, and Joe Schmidt IV

$2.2B Crypto Fund V

Why we're playing the long game

May 5 • cdixon, Ali Yahya, Guy, and Eddy Lazzarin

Charts of the Week: The Fastest V-Shaped Recovery Ever

First semis, then software; Peak Social Media; Your SaaSflation Is My Opportunity

May 1 • a16z New Media

April 2026

Introducing the a16z Design Engineer Fellowship

A new 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders who have absorbed engineering into their craft and are thinking in systems, not screens

Apr 30 • Erik Torenberg, Katie Kirsch, and David Booth

Call the Plumber; We’ve Got a Leaky Abstraction

A model of how things break, for non-doomers

Apr 29 • Alex Danco

Workday's Last Workday?

HCM is the last large enterprise software category without a serious AI-native challenger, and that’s about to change

Apr 28 • Joe Schmidt IV

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