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Investing in Mirendil

a16z leads Mirendil's Seed round

The World-Building Doors Are Open, Again.

A new chapter for consumer startups

Investing in Probook

a16z leads Probook's Series A

Impeccable by Design

AI raised the floor. Time to raise the ceiling.

How to Win a Space War

In a space war, America must fight on the side of order

Investing in Prosper AI

a16z leads Prosper AI's Series A

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

New Media, One Year In

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

Introducing the a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship

For engineers who recruit, talent leaders who build, and anyone rewriting how exceptional people get found.

Investing in Telepatia

a16z leads Telepatia's Series A

Investing in Convey

a16z leads Convey's Series A

Uneven Frontiers

How AI will transform biopharma—and why the sequence of change matters

The a16z CFO Community

A place to pressure-test the decisions you can't put in a board deck

SpaceX & the Sentient Sun

Earth is the cradle of humanity, and you cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Charts of the Week: Making the Stuff that Makes the Stuff

Spirited Away; Giving Zero-Clicks; V-Shaped SaaS? Depends on Who’s Asking

Late Stage Venture Is About Late Stage Founders

The right kind of person can keep growing ambitiously, forever

Everything is Recorded Now

The living context layer is being built inside companies right now, whether they're paying attention or not

Month-End Is Now Just Another Day

What a difference a modern ERP makes

Charts of the Week: RTO Stalled

Remote work to my job?; AI SMB Power Users; Lil’ Biotech

A16Z's Global Mission

Mission and call to help not just founders, but America and her allies

Investing in Endra

a16z leads Endra's Series A

Keeping the Drone Swarm Alive

The Pentagon is racing to field autonomous platforms faster than it can sustain them.

Charts of the Week: Retail to the Moon

Borrowing Bigly for AI; Selling Software to Uncle Sam; Grocery is an advertising business

Narrative Violation: In B2B customer support, AI is a Copilot, Not a Replacement

The state of agentic customer support, featuring data from Pylon

Introducing the a16z FDE Fellowship

A new 8-week cohort of FDEs at the forefront of how AI is deployed into enterprises.

Avoiding Death on the Yellow Brick Road

Why The App Layer Isn't Dead

Everything, Everywhere is Compliance

Why AI's Biggest Enterprise Opportunity Is Also Its Most Boring

Charts of the Week: Reflections from Sohn

Peak computer science; Small Business Boom; Token maxxing

Flock and the Future of Safety in American Cities

The greatest deterrent to crime isn't the severity of punishment but whether you think you'll get caught

Exa is Building the Search Engine for the AI Era

Your AI system should have truly comprehensive knowledge of the world, no matter how complex the request

Investing in Exa

a16z leads Exa's Series C

Need Series C? Call a16z

Things you might learn about AI adoption from your local plaintiff attorney

Charts of the Week: Memory to the Moon

Affirm’s AI Turn; Shrinking SmallCaps; California’s Healthcare Jobmaker

Brian Chesky on the three stages of building a company.

From “System of Record” to “System of Intelligence”

The reasoning layer that sits above the database, and that increasingly treats the database as infrastructure, is where a new generation of companies is being built.

Investing in Stitch

a16z leads Stitch's Series A

The Founders Who Left Tesla to Rebuild America | a16z

Erin Price-Wright speaks with Turner Caldwell and Drew Baglino about what it will take to close America's critical minerals gap and modernize the power infrastructure that underpins the AI economy. With the US more than 50 years behind China in critical mineral supply and grid infrastructure built on systems designed a century ago, they examine where the real bottlenecks are and how to move faster. The conversation covers how automation, reinforcement learning, and vertically integrated operations can compress the timelines for mining and refining, and why co-locating supply chains matters mo

Is Software Losing Its Head?

Agents may kill muscle memory as a moat, but they do not kill operational logic and context as a moat.

Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z

David Haber speaks with Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, about leadership, risk, and navigating moments of extreme uncertainty. Drawing on his experience leading Goldman through the financial crisis, Blankfein shares how organizations can build resilience, make decisions under pressure, and maintain culture while scaling. They discuss the importance of risk management as both a discipline and a mindset, the difference between being wrong and being reckless, and how great organizations balance taking risk with protecting against it. Blankfein also reflects on Goldman’s partnership

Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS

Erik Torenberg speaks with Marc Andreessen about the state of AI, media, and the broader cultural and economic shifts shaping the internet. They discuss how narratives around AI, from fear to hype, are influencing public perception, and why real-world usage tells a very different story. The conversation covers AI’s impact on jobs and productivity, the rise of “AI-native” builders, and why increased capability tends to expand work rather than eliminate it. Andreessen also examines how companies are adapting, from restructuring teams to rethinking roles around more generalist “builders.” They

"No Man Left Behind": American Technology Ships with Our Values

China is already building autonomous weapons at scale. The question is whether America builds them first, or cedes the rules of war to Beijing.

Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show

David Ulevitch speaks with Ben Horowitz about what it means to lead the technology industry at scale, and the responsibilities that come with it. Following the firm’s largest-ever fundraise, they discuss how venture capital, technology, and national strategy are increasingly intertwined. The conversation covers America’s role in the next technological revolution, from AI to advanced manufacturing, and why maintaining technological leadership is critical not just for economic growth, but for global influence. Horowitz also shares his perspective on working with government, supporting national

Charts of the Week: It Was a Good Quarter for "Other Income"

The Slop Surplus; Call Centers, Not Dead Yet; In AI, Great Products Win Fast

How an AI Bill Becomes a Law

The question is no longer whether Congress is interested in AI legislation. It is whether the political conditions will align to move a proposal.

Investing in Ethos

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts

NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show

Morgan Brennan speaks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about the next phase of American space exploration and the urgency behind returning to the moon. They discuss the Artemis program, the challenges of cost, speed, and execution, and how a new competitive landscape is reshaping NASA’s priorities. The conversation covers the role of public-private partnerships, the rise of commercial space companies, and the need to rebuild core capabilities within NASA. Isaacman also outlines how the agency is shifting toward faster iteration, clearer demand signals for industry, and a more focused st

The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy

No evidence, no imagination, no understanding of humans

Meet the a16z Growth Engineer Fellows

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts

System Integration as Software

The technology to do this differently has only just arrived

Investing in Tessera Labs

a16z Invests in Terrera's Series A

Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show

David Haber speaks to Tony James, former President and COO of Blackstone, about what it takes to build enduring investment franchises across five decades on Wall Street.They discuss how DLJ used principal capital to outflank better-capitalized rivals in private equity, the lessons from backing Jim Sinegal at Costco's Series A and serving alongside Charlie Munger for 30 years, and how scaled to new heights through retail distribution, disciplined acquisitions, and a succession plan built to preserve momentum. Timestamps: 00:00 - Trailer 00:45 - Starting at DLJ: Getting in on the Ground Floor

$2.2B Crypto Fund V

Why we're playing the long game

Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show

Katherine Boyle speaks with Sarah Rogers, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, about the intersection of AI, free speech, and global information systems. They discuss how major technological shifts, from the printing press to the internet to AI, have reshaped communication and power, and why this moment may be even more consequential. Recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit, the conversation explores the role of public diplomacy in the digital age, the risks of censorship and overregulation, and how governments are approaching AI as both a national security priority and a platform for

Charts of the Week: The Fastest V-Shaped Recovery Ever

First semis, then software; Peak Social Media; Your SaaSflation Is My Opportunity

Introducing the a16z Design Engineer Fellowship

A new 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders who have absorbed engineering into their craft and are thinking in systems, not screens

Call the Plumber; We’ve Got a Leaky Abstraction

A model of how things break, for non-doomers

Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z

Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, and Martin Casado, general partner at a16z, discuss the reality of AI inside enterprises. They cover the gap between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world, why most AI initiatives fail in large organizations, and how agents, infrastructure, and workflows are evolving beyond the hype. Timestamps: 00:00 - Trailer 01:05 - Introductions & The Silicon Valley vs Enterprise Gap 04:30 - Why Enterprise AI Efforts Keep Failing 09:16 - The Architectural Shift: Treating AI as a User, Not Software 14:38 - The Integration Wall Agents Can't

Workday's Last Workday?

HCM is the last large enterprise software category without a serious AI-native challenger, and that’s about to change

Charts of the Week: Software Ate the World

Railroad GPT; Stablecoins volumes are shifting from transfers to payments; The Next Decade of News; See ya later, productivity gains

Investing in Glif

a16z leads Glif's Seed round

DoW Contracting for Startups 101

Updated for April 2026: The following is a high-level primer intended to arm you with a rough framework of how to approach selling to the DoW today

Investing in Petual

a16z invests in Petual

Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show

Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about the launch of Monitoring the Situation (https://www.youtube.com/mtsituation) a new, always-on media network on X. They discuss the rise of the “current thing,” how narratives spread in real time, and why internet-native media is reshaping politics, culture, and attention. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - The CNN "Random Ammonium" Origin Story 05:18 - The Internet Reinvented Random Ammonium 10:02 - If It's on the Internet, It's a Viral Meme 17:25 - Is Political Polarization Overstated? 29:4

Why We Need Continual Learning

The Memento and the Machine

The Internet is Real Life

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

Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show

Erik Torenberg and Anish Acharya, general partners at a16z, speak with signüll about how technology reshapes culture, relationships, and the products we build. The conversation covers tacit knowledge versus intellectual knowledge, dating apps and their effect on human connection, AI relationships, why Claude feels artisan while other models feel utilitarian, and what consumer founders should actually care about. Timestamps: (00:00) Tech Culture Collision (02:05) Internet Commentary Mindset (07:15) AI Adoption And Building Advice (13:31) Model Personalities And Future Interfaces (19:49) Ambien

Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z

Recorded live at the a16z Fintech Connect conference in Deer Valley, Alex Rampell speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about how AI has rewritten the fundamental rules of software competition, why crypto infrastructure will become essential in an AI-dominated world, and what the future holds for venture capital. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:39) The New Laws of Physics for Tech Companies (06:37) Why Not Every Legacy SaaS Company Is Dead (08:17) The Future of Venture Capital (10:30) America's AI Infrastructure Bottleneck (14:27) AI + Crypto: Why They're More Connect

Your Mission Statement Is Not Your Company Culture

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