tech, startups, internet
Your guide to AI in Q4 2017.
This is the most recent issue of the most in-depth newsletter about AI that I’ve ever seen. The author Nathan Benaich deserves a standing ovation. | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
The autonomy economy.
Last year, a16z partner Benedict Evans published Cars and second order consequences, which digs into the idea of what happens after all cars are autonomous and electric. This series of videos by fellow a16z partner Frank Chen digs into each theme in turn: […]
tech, startups, internet
Think3 is giving SaaS founders a reset button.
Their new $1B fund will buy SaaS startups that haven’t reached unicorn status so that the founders can move on to found new startups. | learn more
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Gesture-based smart home tech looks neat!
Telling Alexa to turn on the light is cool, but pointing to the light to turn it on is even cooler. | learn more
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The next 3 billion in financial services.
Angela Strange, another a16z partner, takes us by the hand through the financial services that cater to low-income U.S. populations and unbanked global citizens. She “shares what’s happening and why; how we might address the problem; and where this creates […]
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The bio side of tech.
Vijay Pande led a16z’s investment in health-tech company BioAge, and uses this post to explain the rationale. They have the ambitious goal of identifying biomarkers for aging in youthful blood. Vijay makes it easy for non-scientists to understand the meaning […]
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Smart homes and vegetable peelers.
Benedict Evans addresses a few questions here, but I consider the most interesting to be the scale problem of voice as a platform. How do you even know what you can and can’t ask Alexa? “The ideal number of skills […]
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The spin master behind Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Here’s a fascinating story that I had never heard before. “For decades Margit Wennmachers has quietly shaped the world’s hottest startups. Now Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon must reckon with the era of big tech.” | learn more
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A peek inside Alphabet’s investing universe.
Google’s parent company uses a multi-pronged approach to investing. “Taken together, Alphabet is one of the most prolific corporate investors in startups. In 2017, Crunchbase data shows that Alphabet’s three main investing arms — GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), […]
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Two ultra-smart geeks from a16z talk about connected home.
“Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky discuss CES 2018 and share insight on what they took from this year’s show. … beyond the event of CES itself, Evans and Sinofsky analyze the experimentation we’re beginning to see in connected consumer electronics for […]