Culture

Meet the second cohort of a16z New Media Fellows

A new group of 65 storytellers, creators, substackers, and comms leaders shaping the future of new media

20 hrs ago • Erik Torenberg, Henry Williams, and Katie Kirsch

New Media, One Year In

To win you must go direct, and to go direct you must be interesting

Jun 18 • Erik Torenberg, Alex Danco, Elena Burger, Henry Williams, Tom Hollands, Brent Liang, and Gaby Goldberg

Meet the a16z Growth Engineer Fellows

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts

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

The Internet is Real Life

Sooner or later, everyone ends up thinking, speaking, and acting on terms that have been set online.

Apr 21 • Erik Torenberg

Monitoring the Situation

Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS

Apr 20 • Erik Torenberg and Brent Liang

SF is back - and the tech social scene is being run by the terminally online

The new "proof of work" is your mutuals

Apr 9 • Katie Kirsch

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

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

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