“The best startup ideas are based on earned secrets” - a founder’s unique insight into a market or problem space that few other folks understand (yet) Airtable founder Howie Liu and andrew chen at a16z speedrun 🧊 on advice for new founders searching for PMF today

fun frequent convo I've been having with founders in the a16z speedrun program we're running in LA for the next 12-weeks: the clarity of a startup's story means clarity in their strategy. The story is the strategy. On the other hand, a confusing, rambling story means that your

a16z Speedrun comes to Israel! Hosting a few events below 👇🏼

when consumers don't care that you're building an AI product (and might even hate it) I'm hearing a common thread from consumer AI founders: Consumers often don't really care that your new startup product uses AI under the covers, and in fact, when they find out, they find it to

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What do Roblox, Anduril, CrowdStrike and Apple all have in common? None of them looked like obvious winners from the start. But they built something far bigger than anyone expected. We call these companies Modelbusters. Modelbusters either reveal a market that’s much larger

I love showing the 2000 comparison chart, focused on top ten. Of the top ten companies in 2000, three were American tech companies. By 2025, eight are American tech companies, some of which weren’t even founded until after 2000. The story of the Second American Century is

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I asked 6 app builders to create me a calorie tracking app. Which one is the best? Lovable Rork a0.dev v0 Bloom (YC X25) SteerCode

Funny how doing laundry has turned into the Turing Test for home robotics

excited to announce the micro relationship engine it pulls in all your connections and lets you message them on any platform & automatically updates their profiles and CRM records but don't call it a personal CRM:

What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently? What if you could have stopped it… but chose not to? That’s the question Orchid’s embryo screening forces. You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on

The UK is arresting ~12k people per year over speech crimes. What the fuck is this? I'm glad I left the UK for the US when I did otherwise, or I might have ended up in jail.

Pretty awesome to hear benahorowitz.eth and andrew chen talking at a16z speedrun 🧊 I read Ben’s book, The hard thing about hard things several years before I founded Dex with Harry Uglow. It’s easily one of my favourite books, and one that took on even more significance once we

quick update on SF and LA tech week which a16z is organizing in October: the deadline for SF/LA Tech Week events is this Friday, 8/22! If you want to host a panel, happy hour, etc. for SF/LA Tech Week, we’ll list it on the official calendar and drive a ton of traffic / leads to

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