early stage founders who don't create content, hire people who create content, or consume content in the space they are building will get destroyed by competitors who do. content isn't just marketing, it's a core mechanism for hiring/fundraising/gtm we teach this at a16z speedrun 🧊

People say AI is mainstream. But it won’t be mainstream until nobody talks about it anymore. When the latest models or tools don’t matter because it just works. When we can just go about our day to day lives and use AI hundreds of times a day without even realising it. When

Most AI advice is making people dumber, not smarter. Everyone's sharing JSON schemas and complex prompt engineering when 90% of people just need to ask better questions in plain English. The best AI results come from clarity, not complexity. • Write like you're talking to a

Announcement: I’m looking for 50-100 YouTubers to implement our growth strategies with. 🎉 We’re opening up cohort 8 applications for our 8 week YouTube accelerator. I teach everything I know that generates me over 10 billion views a year with my clients. We’ve taken

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Claude code is incredible to build apps But the 99% are still looking for that UX layer that makes it easy for them Coding in your terminal will never be the best user experience. Maybe for the few but not for the masses. This why even though AI coding tools like lovable,

One of the best app building tools just got crazy good 👀

Every platform will enable the creation of custom AI agents with simple editors. Packaging these to help people solve problems is the next wave of AI opportunity.

App idea: AI powered user journey creator agent User puts app feature or PRD in, agent builds the flow in Figjam and shares it on your design teams slack channel. Team gives feedback on slack, the agent updates the flow in Figjam. Somebody build it 😉

If you’re building an app, this might be the biggest opportunity for free distribution this decade. OpenAI is letting users chat to apps (including yours) It’s launching fully later this year, so BUILD THIS NOW. If your app is recommended to solve a problem, that’s potentially

The the next wave of opportunity is Claude Agent wrappers. Here’s how to take advantage of this. Anthropic discovered gold when they built Claude Code. But most people don’t know that Claude Code is just a crazy good general purpose agent that lives in your terminal. But the

Here’s what the biggest mobile app building tools like Rork, Anything and Vibecode aren’t telling you. Building in-app payments with their tool is near-enough impossible. Why? Because they use Expo Go. Now don’t get me wrong Expo Go is a brilliant tool. But Expo Go is