Culture

Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold

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

7 hrs ago • Alex Danco

Meet the a16z New Media Fellows

65 exceptional operators, builders, and specialists shaping the future of media

Jan 21 • Henry Williams, Brent Liang, Katie Kirsch, and Erik Torenberg

Software's YouTube moment is happening now

Last year, I wrote about how YouTube is a pretty great herald of what we can expect to happen to coding.

Jan 15 • Anish A

Laws of (New) Media

A guest post from Andrew McLuhan

Dec 16, 2025 • Andrew McLuhan

Why Nerds Are More Clippable

McLuhan’s Laws of Media, applied to New Media

Dec 15, 2025 • Alex Danco

Toward a Working Definition of Paperclip-Punk

I’m delighted to share that Elena Burger (known to many of you on the internet as @virtualelena) is joining the writing staff on the a16z New Media…

Dec 3, 2025 • Elena Burger

Why local tech scenes have changed

AI has changed the risk-benefit equation for local talent and opportunity cost

Dec 2, 2025 • Alex Danco

You can just read 25 sci-fi books

Essential Sci-Fi recommendations, plus some fantasy and non-fiction

Nov 18, 2025 • Matt Bornstein

You can just read 25 books

We asked our founders & GPs for underdog recommendations

Nov 5, 2025 • a16z New Media

Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism

The defining reframe of the AI generation

Oct 10, 2025 • Alex Danco

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