Erin Price-Wright

May 21, 2024 | a16z.com | David Ulevitch |Katherine Boyle |Erin Price-Wright |Martin Casado

We believe the most successful American Dynamism companies share a few common characteristics:They’re able to anticipate technological turning points and breakthroughs. They identify, recruit, and empower the world’s best engineers by giving them insanely hard, cross-disciplinary problems to own. They continuously push the limits of what’s possible with technology, and innovate quickly through both success and failure.

May 6, 2024 | a16z.com | Erin Price-Wright |Ryan McEntush |Katherine Boyle |David Ulevitch

In the year and a half since ChatGPT launched a new AI wave, a crucial shortfall has dominated headlines: the insatiable demand for GPU computing resources. But when we talk to cloud leaders and data center operators to understand why there’s a compute crunch, it’s clear that access to power is often a bigger bottleneck than access to NVIDIA’s coveted GPUs themselves.

Apr 11, 2024 | a16z.com | Ryan McEntush |David Ulevitch |Katherine Boyle |Erin Price-Wright

The electric grid, a vast and complex system of wires and power plants, is essential to our economy and underpins our industrial strength. Currently, we face a critical challenge: our electricity demands — expected to nearly double by 2040 due to factors like AI compute, reshoring, and “electrification” — are soaring, but our grid infrastructure and operations struggle to keep pace.