Zeya Yang

Jul 31, 2024 | a16z.com | Zeya Yang |Marc Andrusko |Angela Strange |Anish Acharya

The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. In sales tech, it’s easy to assume incumbents like Salesforce and Hubspot have the edge. First, they are embedded as “systems of record,” so sales leaders are loath to rip them out and replace them.

Jul 31, 2024 | flipboard.com | Zeya Yang

8 hours agoHiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Gartner released a report suggesting that around a third of generative AI projects in the enterprise will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept phase by year-end 2025. The reasons are many — poor data quality, inadequate …

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 30, 2023 | a16z.com | Zeya Yang |Kristina Shen |Joshua Lu |Robin Guo

We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications. Despite some enormous technological advances and the presence of LLMs in the general zeitgeist, we believe we’re still only in the first wave of generative AI applications for B2B use cases.

Feb 8, 2023 | a16z.com | Kristina Shen |Zeya Yang

In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless, internal teams have largely moved off of “hard files,” toward real-time workspaces with commenting, collaboration, and notifications. And yet, the way that organizations communicate with each other — inter-company collaboration — still largely lives in email and file attachments.