Peter Lauten

Feb 29, 2024 | a16z.com | David George |Peter Lauten |Dylan Field |Justin Kahl

Everyone knows that founders have been on a whipsaw over the past several years. Pivoting from growth at all costs in 2020 and 2021 to efficiency in 2022 and 2023 meant slashing budgets, shelving new projects, doing RIFs, and picking fights with your cloud provider over your bills. That’s hard work, and founders should be commended for doing it.

Aug 11, 2023 | a16z.com | David George |Peter Lauten

When a platform shift reshapes the technology landscape, who wins? From mainframes to PCs, desktop to mobile, unnetworked to internet, and on-prem to cloud and SaaS, technical progress in software tends to follow Schumpeter’s creative destruction: new winners emerge with new eras. As our partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang recently explored, this dynamic is finally starting to play out in AI.

Aug 11, 2023 | a16z.com | Peter Lauten |David George |Jamie Sullivan |Alex Immerman

When a platform shift reshapes the technology landscape, who wins? From mainframes to PCs, desktop to mobile, unnetworked to internet, and on-prem to cloud and SaaS, technical progress in software tends to follow Schumpeter’s creative destruction: new winners emerge with new eras. As our partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang recently explored, this dynamic is finally starting to play out in AI.