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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​.

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.

4 weeks ago | a16z.com | Ben Horowitz

Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the PowerEarly in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a terrible crisis. We just got our hands on Microsoft’s new web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and benchmarked against our product.

1 month ago | a16z.com | Robert Hackett |Sonal Chokshi |Daren Matsuoka |Sam Broner

1 month ago | a16z.com | Marc Andreessen

When we started a16z, we decided that we were going to take a very network and media heavy approach to venture capital. That we wanted to treat venture as not only a craft, but also a product, and staff an organization set up for that goal. We sometimes called ourselves “a media company that monetizes via investing”. While these efforts are commonplace in 2025, they were not when we began them in 2009.