🚗 Funding announcement: a16z is leading Toma's Series A! Toma's voice agent has automated tens of thousands of calls for car dealerships - scheduling appts, placing parts orders, + booking test drives. Toma frees up human employees to get drivers back on the road faster.

Investors love to say that we're in a new era for growth thanks to AI. But beyond the top 0.01%, what does this mean? How fast is the average startup ramping revenue? Marc Andrusko + I pulled data across pitches a16z to build an AI growth benchmark 👇

Similar to a startup 10x YoY with $200k of ARR :)

How do you build a moat in consumer AI today? You don’t. Whoever builds first, iterates fastest, and distributes best wins. Here’s a metaphor I’ve been using: Launching a consumer AI company is like ejecting a pigeon into the sky and willing it to fly. (Stick with me.)👇

Excited to release our episode with Adam Neumann, Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 and benahorowitz.eth. I'm inspired by Adam tripling down on Flow by putting hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into the company alongside us. That's conviction.

Impossible Tiny Desk🔈 Obviously this is not actually Christopher Wallace nor is it NPR Instrumentation from the very talented The Frank White Experience via YouTube 4o / Kling via KREA AI / Hedra / demucs

Welcome to the era of “brainrot” education. With AI, you can learn calculus from Sydney Sweeney or have Taylor Swift explain what a Taylor series is. "It makes me think, to what extent are we going to see standalone AI Edtech products versus new formats and ways to learn that

Function was just named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025.

This Function Health member’s story is inspiring, and we hear experiences like this daily. It’s a peak into what we are building, and why.