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@omooretweets @a16z @Kantrowitz Loved this, especially the last 1-2% comment. The frontier labs will never care about hyper specific edge cases. For me it’s also about the community: If the people who influence me are adopting the same product and becoming my peers through it, I’m not leaving.

How can AI application startups compete with the big labs and incumbents? I shared some of our thoughts on this @a16z with @Kantrowitz 👇

@jackclarkSF @a_baaron I hope this becomes a yearly tradition!

Very proud of this research from The Anthropic Institute - we used Claude to survey ~81,000 people about their hopes, fears, and thoughts about AI. Check it out!

This hit the hardest for me.

Made another simple photo app. Needed a grid builder with some animation, so I had @perplexity_ai Computer build it instead of hunting down a tutorial. Made a bunch of Riso prints from it too! pplx.ai/gridpic

@whatdotcd I feel the same as you (also I’d love a preview link!🔗 )

@a16z 🤣

Marc Andreessen's Introspection Levels More charts: a16z.news/t/charts

@neversitdull Good idea for their new instagram account - instagram.com/helloapple (paging @tim_cook)

I wish there was a way to see the artists/designers behind each of these

somehow the same AIs that can do PhD-level math and superhuman coding can only write as well as “a real poet’s okay poem” (sama’s words, not mine!) I talked to the people training AIs to write about what makes it so hard: new from me for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/technology/202…

@CherrilynnZ Thank you, this made me smile!

ok guys you can draw with claude :-) sound on!! lelezhang.design/draw

@Aurelien_Gz This is great! 👍

exploring advanced image transitions with claude.. so addictive

Annual layoff cycles just slowly cook the culture. The real layoff is when the best people leave voluntarily.

the secret ingredient behind most great things someone cared an unreasonable amount

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

When you realize your imagination is all that's holding you back - I whipped up a datamoshing + blob-tracking video editor in under 60 minutes in Claude Code

my bathroom window makes better gradients than most designers

BREAKING: Inside a16z's $22B AUM Growth Fund Waymo, Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, Stripe, Revolut, ElevenLabs, Flock Safety, Harvey, EliseAI, Hebbia, Roblox, Anduril, Sardine With a fresh $6.75B Growth fund, General Partner Alex Immerman (@aleximm) shares how @a16z evaluates category leaders & why firms are rethinking old metrics in the AI era. “If you look at OpenAI & Anthropic alone, those two companies added as much revenue last year as 1/2 of the public cloud universe excluding the Mag Seven.” Even as AI added ~$6T in market value to the stock market in 2025, we discuss the private companies driving the next wave of growth. Topics include: • Marc Andreessen lore • Why the fastest-growing tech companies are still private • Waymo’s expansion & the future of autonomous vehicles • ElevenLabs & the breakout of voice AI platforms • Kalshi & the rise of prediction markets • The four largest tech companies adding 1% to U.S. GDP growth with $400B in spending in 2025 • How a16z grew from a startup VC to capturing 18% of all U.S. venture capital • Why engagement, retention, & product defensibility matter more than ever Full conversation ↓ 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Alex Immerman, GP a16z (00:53) Flock Safety: Most underrated company in America (03:43) Private vs public market growth gap (04:43) Do gross margins matter in AI companies? (06:33) Waymo’s growth & $16B funding round (08:13) The future of ride sharing & autonomous vehicles (10:01) Where the value in self driving tech will accrue (12:27) Tesla FSD vs Waymo’s full stack approach (13:50) The growing brand power of Waymo (15:43) What comes after autonomous cars? (17:41) Are people really worried about AI taking over? (18:55) Inside ElevenLabs’ $500M funding round (22:12) The real world use cases of voice AI agents (22:55) How a16z invested in Kalshi (24:11) Why Kalshi over Polymarket? (26:35) Prediction markets vs g*mbling (29:33) Is fintech making a comeback? (32:44) Why stablecoins are becoming important (33:30) Lessons from Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong (34:19) How a16z evaluates growth companies (36:52) Where startups spend money: R&D vs marketing (38:44) Why startups need a strong Act 2 (40:08) Why venture outcomes are getting bigger & bigger (42:24) Why backing the market leader matters (43:49) The best books for founders (44:59) How a16z built its media machine (47:03) Who will be the first Trillionaire?

@GregFeingold Ok this is cool 🫡

Finally got around to updating one of my oldest projects with Claude Code... importing Radiohead's "House of Cards" music video to Apple Vision Pro!

@apostraphi stunning work, as always!