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Andreessen Horowitz
Company blog · a16z.comstartupsbusinessai
Andreessen Horowitz is the company blog at a16z.com, writing about startups, business and ai. Since 2011, 967 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,603 times, most often “When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
Most-linked posts?
- When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2015-08-06
- The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2023-10-16
- It’s Time to Build13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2020-04-18
- Why Software Is Eating the World12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2023-10-12
- Software Is Eating the World (2011)12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2019-05-20
- Welcome to LLMflation – LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2024-11-12
- The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-02-16
- The Little Tech Agenda10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-04-11
- Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2023-01-20
What Hacker News says?
The weird part is that they were actually profitable before they started taking funding. [1][2] [1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-... [2]: https://a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-developme...
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on “Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub”Submitted It’s Time to Build as a story · 1820 points
HN discussion> Why do we not have these things? Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard. Maybe because investors think that every company will be a fintech company in the future? ( https://a16z.com/2020/01/21/every-company-will-be-a-fintech-... ). > The problem is desire. We need to want these things.…
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on “It’s Time to Build”Submitted Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works as a story · 633 points
HN discussionIf you made this response in a web browser, he helped build that. See also: https://a16z.com/portfolio/
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on “It’s Time to Build”Submitted All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders as a story · 568 points
HN discussionThe cost of inference has be dropping by ~100x in the past 2 years. https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/
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on “OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB”Submitted 1000 True Fans? Try 100 as a story · 512 points
HN discussionIt’s wild, are people purposefully overlooking that inference costs are dropping 10-100x each year? https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/ Look at the log scale slope, especially the orange MMLU > 83 data points.
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on “OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB”Submitted U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On? as a story · 464 points
HN discussionThe article hypes five founders, one definitely was funded by A16Z, the others I think were not but I'm not sure. I don't know anything about the Andreessens' personal investments but just as a general rule you might question the propriety of someone that close to the VC money using your storied newspaper to promote startup founders. I'm not going to hold up the NYT as some bastion of journalistic ethics, but still.…
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on “Elizabeth Holmes found guilty”Submitted Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure as a story · 431 points
HN discussionHis wife is a GP at a16z[0]. I'm sure he's not unfamiliar with the world of Silicon Valley hyper-growth. [0] https://a16z.com/author/vineeta-agarwala/
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on “I resigned from Twitter”Submitted The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software as a story · 398 points
HN discussion> cost of $15m The retail price is not the cost. Not to mention that the exponential plummeting cost of tokens means that that $15 million will be a "pocket change" within a decade or less: https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/
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on “On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem”Submitted 16 Things as a story · 371 points
HN discussionI'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of Andy Grove until today. I did find a great discussion of High Output Management by Ben Horowitz that may be useful to fellow uninitiates: http://a16z.com/2015/11/13/high-output-management/
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on “Andy Grove has died”Submitted Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015) as a story · 319 points
HN discussionTribute to Andy Grove with Ben Horowitz. Worth watching. http://a16z.com/2015/09/28/the-man-who-built-silicon-valley-...
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on “Andy Grove has died”Submitted Mobile is Eating the World as a story · 311 points
HN discussionFWIW, they only call it "Github stars". The graph that says "adoption" is from a16z [0]. 0: https://a16z.com/2022/11/16/creativity-as-an-app/
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on “Stable Diffusion 2.0”Submitted Why I did not go to jail (2014) as a story · 307 points
HN discussionRecommended listening: https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-bu...
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on “AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana”Submitted Mobile Changes Everything as a story · 299 points
HN discussionhttps://a16z.com/2010/12/16/ones-and-twos/ This is often inherent in the organizational structure of big companies. To the extent that there are visionaries in a big company, they're usually not anywhere on the executive team, or even anywhere that the CEO comes in direct contact with. If they were, they'd clash with the CEO's vision, which first of all would be confusing and inefficient for the organization and sec…
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on “Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet”Submitted Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work as a story · 289 points
HN discussionHe's a Type-2 CEO [1], a Ballmer, Sculley, or Cook figure. These types of personalities are generally incapable of innovating, but they're very good at maximizing the growth, efficiency, and profit potential of existing product lines. Wall Street loves them because they lead to higher EPS; the general public generally considers them mediocre because they don't lead to awesome new toys to play with. Personally I thou…
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on “Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet”Submitted AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video] as a story · 288 points
HN discussionIf DAU is your only metric, sure. WeChat has a horizontal breadth that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have been trying to copy though. The equivalent of ApplePay, Venmo, basic online shopping, etc are all in WeChat. https://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
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on “China Blocks WhatsApp”Submitted Planning and Managing Layoffs as a story · 280 points
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