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 …

May 22, 2024 | a16z.com | Zeya Yang

AI can own B2B workflows by converting them into a feature or capability within the product. This is the potential that we believe SynthAI yields.

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.