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5 days 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | a16z.com | Justine Moore

What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem.

1 month ago | a16z.com | Angela Strange |James da Costa

At a16z'a fourth annual Connect/Fintech event, discussions spanned what's working in AI, operational lessons on how to scale faster, and the future of banking charters.

1 month ago | a16z.com | Yoko Li

We explore what MCP is, how it changes the way AI interacts with tools, what developers are already building, and the challenges that still need solving.