Archive - a16z

Charts of the Week: Winds of Thematic Change

Data Centers Are A Blue Collar Bonanza; It’s Not Your Imagination–Ridesharing Really Is More Expensive; Agents Are Early, But They’re Already Changing…

Aug 21 • Moses Sternstein

Rise of the Borderless Founder

Your background is your moat

Aug 20 • Gabriel Vasquez and Angela Strange

Meet the a16z Talent Engineer Fellows

The ~50 fellows we've selected to join the inaugural cohort

Aug 19 • David Booth, Katie Kirsch, and Anna Owens

OpenRouter & Stripe: The Intelligence Network

Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter

Aug 19 • Martin Casado

Your Favorite Creator Isn’t Real—Does it Matter?

I ran a social experiment with a fake AI influencer that The Daily Mail crowned as Alabama's "most popular sorority star"

Aug 17 • Olivia Moore

Charts of the Week: Head In The Neoclouds

Return of Horizontal SaaS; Towards an Efficient Frontier of Token-maxxing; Lab Talent Wars

Aug 14 • Moses Sternstein

Cursor + SpaceXAI: the fastest iterating team wins

Move in the right direction, faster than anyone else.

Aug 14 • Sarah Wang, Matt Bornstein, and Martin Casado

This Essay is 10% AI Generated

Pangram, Authorship, and French Theory

Aug 13 • Alex Danco

Investing in Vals

a16z invests in Vals

Aug 13 • Jennifer Li, Yoko Li, Raghu Raghuram, and Shangda Xu

What It Takes to Get Paid

How to ask for the money you're owed

Aug 12 • a16z New Media

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI

If the weights are free, who pays for the next run, and who will keep us safe?

Aug 11 • Christian Catalini

Can Agents Use a Computer Yet? We've Got the Data

When your heaviest users stop checking the leaderboard, the leaderboard has stopped being the story

Aug 10 • Fabrizio Serafini, Seema Amble, and Eric Zhou

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