We a16z are delighted to be on the SSI team, and enthusiastic about the mission and strategy. 💪🤖🚀

Excited to come out of stealth with our newest project CX2 which we are building with 8VC and Joe Lonsdale, a16z, David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 and Michelle Volz 🇺🇸🚀 . Here's our latest Op Ed with my co-founder Porter Smith in the The Wall Street Journal discussing the company's thesis. The Future of Warfare is

I hereby dub this “The Op”. Sometimes called “Reverse Cognitive Behavioral Therapy”. A deliberate demoralization campaign from our most important institutions, destroying themselves in the process. x.com/glukianoff/sta…

This was a very brave piece from Derek Thompson - on overmedicating, over diagnosis and exporting mental illness across the world. It didn’t receive as much attention as it deserves imo because of the obvious implications, but kudos to The Atlantic for publishing something many have

A law of nature: No one remembers who came up with the idea, only the people who implement it. This flusters many creatives who take pride in bylines and authorship, but use this law of nature to your advantage. Memes can travel fast without fingerprints. If you care more

1/ If you've been around San Francisco recently, you’ve probably noticed Waymo everywhere. Self-driving cars are just one example of how autonomy is becoming more mainstream. But there's even more happening in industries like defense, industrial processes, and manufacturing...

6/ We’re in the early stages of building the infrastructure needed for broad autonomy. If you’re innovating in this space—creating software, hardware, or both—we’d love to connect and explore the future together! a16z.com/a-software-dri…

Remember, the media is this wrong about things you don't know about too.

If everything that moves is to be autonomous, we will need an autonomy stack to support that. My partner Erin Price-Wright's new post explains how the shift from monolithic systems to a more modular software-driven autonomy stack can support a range of physical-world applications:

People do not realize how hard it is to make an interesting podcast episode. Most people are boring. Most conversations are terrible. It requires an exceptional host or someone who could carry a one-man show on a stage. Many great actors with scripts can’t even do that. Great

This was one of my favorite days at work, bringing Starlink’s high-speed internet to a school in the Amazon and meeting (and getting hugs from) these extraordinary students. This picture shows just a few of the hundreds of thousands of amazing Brazilian people whom we are

Message Starlink sent to its Brazilian customers: “Starlink is committed to defending your rights protected by your Constitution and will continue providing service to you for free if necessary.” F*CKING LEGEND!

⚡ My chat (+transcript) with a16z venture capitalist Katherine Boyle on 'American Dynamism' Faster, Please! — The Podcast #57

Open Philanthropy is everywhere. Once you see it, you can’t unsee.

When deciding between options and methods, the strong form (versus the weak form) is almost always the better way.