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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
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Katie Kirsch
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Erik Torenberg
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Brent Liang
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Henry Williams
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Infinite Jest belongs in the Techno-Optimist Canon
A16Z Culture's most controversial book recommendation so far
Feb 25
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Alex Danco
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"I'm out, who's with me?": 'Exit' as an organizing idea
A guest post for a16z Culture
Feb 11
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Ross Calvin
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Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold
We've practiced for this AI rite of passage our entire lives
Feb 4
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Alex Danco
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Meet the a16z New Media Fellows
65 exceptional operators, builders, and specialists shaping the future of media
Jan 21
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Henry Williams
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Brent Liang
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Katie Kirsch
, and
Erik Torenberg
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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
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Anish A
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Laws of (New) Media
A guest post from Andrew McLuhan
Dec 16, 2025
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Andrew McLuhan
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Why Nerds Are More Clippable
McLuhan’s Laws of Media, applied to New Media
Dec 15, 2025
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Alex Danco
140
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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
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Elena Burger
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Why local tech scenes have changed
AI has changed the risk-benefit equation for local talent and opportunity cost
Dec 2, 2025
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Alex Danco
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You can just read 25 sci-fi books
Essential Sci-Fi recommendations, plus some fantasy and non-fiction
Nov 18, 2025
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Matt Bornstein
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You can just read 25 books
We asked our founders & GPs for underdog recommendations
Nov 5, 2025
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a16z New Media
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