Ali Yahya

Mar 26, 2024 | a16z.com | Kristina Shen |Zeya Yang |Jay Rughani |Ali Yahya

An enduring promise of new technologies is to find ways to increase human productivity. Software and robotics, for example, have always presented immense potential to automate repetitive mundane tasks that humans perform, freeing them up to do more valuable work. In the last few decades, we’ve made meaningful progress toward this goal, and the first generation of robotic process automation created some massive companies, such as UiPath. Yet, we never made it past the most simple tasks.

Mar 21, 2024 | a16zcrypto.com | Ali Yahya

Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The ideas behind how this can work were first laid out by Vitalik a few years back in his now-famous rollup-centric roadmap post. Since then, other ecosystem players like zkSync, Optimism, and Polygon have extended that vision with roadmaps for Hyperchains, the Superchain, and Polygon’s AggLayer.

Jun 11, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Ali Yahya |Guy Wuollet

Investing in Gensyn Ali YahyaGuy Wuollet The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.

Feb 10, 2023 | medium.com | Ali Yahya

I have made many mistakes in my career over the past 8 years, most of which were small, some of them were tolerable, and perhaps one was unacceptable, which I still can’t seem to clarify. By attempting so many failures in a short period of time, I have become accustomed to them, which has taught me many things. One of the things that consistently emerges is, that you only take a closer look at what you did wrong, and that’s where you learn.