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4 days ago | 
a16z.com | Zach Cohen |Seema Amble
For decades, companies have poured billions of dollars into market research to better understand their customers, only to be constrained by slow surveys, biased panels, and lagging insights. Despite the $140 billion spent each year on market research, software is little more than a rounding error.
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1 week ago | 
a16z.com | Zach Cohen |Seema Amble
It’s the end of search as we know it, and marketers feel fine. Sort of. For over two decades, SEO was the default playbook for visibility online. It spawned an entire industry of keyword stuffers, backlink brokers, content optimizers, and auditing tools, along with the professionals and agencies to operate them. But in 2025, search has been shifting away from traditional browsers toward LLM platforms.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
a16z.com | Olivia Moore |Anish Acharya |Seema Amble |Justine Moore
For enterprises, AI directly replaces human labor with technology. It’s cheaper, faster, more reliable — and often outperforms humans. Voice agents also allow businesses to be available to their customers 24/7 to answer questions, schedule appointments, or complete purchases. Customer availability and business availability no longer have to match 1:1 (ever tried to call an East Coast bank after 3 p.m. PT?); with voice agents, every business can always be online.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Seema Amble |Anish Acharya |Marc Andrusko |David Haber
About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Seema Amble |Anish Acharya |Marc Andrusko |David Haber
ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Seema Amble |Anish Acharya |Marc Andrusko |David Haber
About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
a16z.com | David Haber |Marc Andrusko |Anish Acharya |Seema Amble
As the world’s most traded asset class, the fixed income markets are a pillar of our global economy. They enable governments to finance critical infrastructure, corporations to fund growth, and individuals to make life’s most important purchases. However, despite their centrality in our lives, it remains far too difficult to access fixed income securities like treasuries, municipal bonds, and corporate debt.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Alex Immerman |Seema Amble |Marc Andrusko
During a recent Connect/Fintech event hosted by a16z, Pieter van der Does, co-founder and co-CEO of leading financial technology platform Adyen, Anthony Noto, CEO of the leading digital personal finance company SoFi, and Kristo Käärmann, co-founder and CEO of leading money movement platform service Wise, sat down with a16z Partner Alex Immerman to chat about how they manage efficiency, product development, and life as a public company CEO.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Anish Acharya |Seema Amble |Marc Andrusko |David Haber
Summer’s here, bringing long days, warm nights, and hopefully some downtime to catch up on relaxing reads or learn something new. If you’re looking for something fun, or a bit more business-minded, to read, watch, or listen to, a16z’s Fintech partners have put together a list of recommendations, which span recent hits to older hidden gems.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Marc Andrusko |Seema Amble
Pricing a new product or service can be confusing, and founders—be they first-timers who’ve just shipped their MVP or veterans whose products have been in market for years—are often unsure how much time they should be spending on pricing strategy. Pricing can be particularly tricky for B2B fintech companies, which have multiple paths to monetization (e.g., some combination of SaaS vs. transactional revenue, or freemium vs. subscription).
