Enjoy! Dicusssion of company building in the post-COVID era with benahorowitz.eth and me. 🦠🪓🌇🚀

One of the most frequent questions we get from founders is…

“How do I approach a token launch?”

So miles jennings , Jason Rosenthal, & Adina Fischer | adinafischer.eth put together a playbook covering the how, when, and what, as it relates to token launches.

Dig into the posts ⤵️

Fun times on Way Up With Angela Yee ! Cultural Leadership Fund @a16z

I wrote an oped in Financial Times.

My goal isn't to defend or to diminish memecoins.

It’s to point out the backward incentives of a regulatory regime in the US that lets only memecoins thrive — while companies and tokens with more productive uses face hurdles.

ft.com/content/1ceaa1…

We've acquired Golden, a San Francisco-based innovator, automating the construction of one of the world’s largest knowledge graphs. We are also delighted to welcome a16z as a new shareholder with powerful expertise in tech innovation. Read the full press release below:

What did benahorowitz.eth say?!

Find out tomorrow when a new eps of The Ben & Marc Show drops here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Few terms in AI invoke more of a reaction than “open.”

AI experts jzemlin, MitchellBaker, Percy Liang & a16z's Anjney Midha discuss what it really means to be 'open,' the crucial role of open source in the future of AI & more on the AI + a16z Podcast. a16z.com/podcast/making…

Trying to figure out how to promote your game?

So is every other game dev in the world

We spoke with the organizers of the The Triple-i Initiative, Wholesome Games, & OTK Games Expo about how they're trying to solve the games discovery problem.

a16zgames.substack.com/p/your-attenti…

What will fintech look like in 2034?

Mercury's immad & BILL’s Rene Lacerte discussed the impact of genAI, selling to SMBs, & keeping culture strong while scaling with Alex Immerman at a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event. Get the highlights 👇
a16z.com/forecasting-fi…

Had a fun convo with immad and Rene Lacerte

We chatted about the impact of genAI across fintech and how they maintain culture + retain & recruit top talent at Mercury and BILL
a16z.com/forecasting-fi…

Please submit questions for an upcoming podcast from benahorowitz.eth and me as replies to this xeet—theme is 'the current state of AI and company building”—thank you!

From drug treatment to drought resistant crops, Senator Todd Young joins martin_casado to discuss why supporting AI research at all levels is imperative for America's future.

🎧 Listen here: a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/why-a…

At this point I feel like we understand pretty well what's going on with LLMs:

- Outputs are roughly equivalent to kernel smoothing over positional embeddings (arxiv.org/pdf/1908.11775…)
- The learned computation model is *probably* bounded by RASP-L (arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16028…)
-…

Healthcare represents a colossal, untapped market ripe for technological disruption.

Vijay Pande & Daisy Wolf call on tech to build in healthcare in one of our top articles of 2023: a16z.com/hey-tech-its-t…

@Zipline just made its 1,000,000th autonomous delivery to a customer. 10 years ago experts told me drone delivery wasn't possible, would never be allowed anywhere, and no one would ever pay for it. Turns out it is possible and people love it.

I am proud of Jennifer. She shows up every day with all the right ingredients -- knowledge, effort, attitude, intelligence, understanding -- and makes everyone around her better. Extremely well deserved promotion.

While the focus today is on GPUs, Anjney Midha believes AI inference is a big opportunity going forward.

On the AI + a16z podcast, Anjney explains how advances in wearable hardware could mean more natural interactions between humans and machines.

🎧👇a16z.com/podcast/remaki…

So very excited for the promotion of Jennifer Li to GP. She's a primary reason a16z enterprise investing is what it is, being a key player behind so many deals, our team and our investment philosophy and process. She really is 'the best of us'.

a16z.com/jennifer-li/