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“Today I have a not-yet-two-year-old son, and my main job is to keep him alive. My quiet hope is that by the time he’s old enough to drive, he won’t need to.” a16z's Alex Immerman on the magic of self-driving cars:

a16z's Justine Moore on the potential of multimodal AI in 2026, where anything-in, anything-out models give users the freedom to iterate rapidly across many kinds of media: @venturetwins

What our consumer team expects in 2026 for AI: - Enterprise usage drives consumer usage - More app generation - More multimodality: Anything-in, anything-out - Better models enable startups to fill niches with opinionated products a16z's Anish Acharya, Bryan Kim, Olivia Moore,

Marc Andreessen on the advantages of beginners: @pmarca

Marc Andreessen says that America's greatest strategic advantage lies not in mimicking China's centralized system, but in doubling down on its chaotic, competitive, entrepreneurial spirit. “What if we become more like us? And what if we lean even harder into innovation, and even

Ben Horowitz on why CEOs need to tell the truth: @bhorowitz

Marc Andreessen on why the product is the most important thing for a tech CEO to understand: “You better have somebody running the company who really understands those products.” “In the technology industry, that’s usually a technologist.” “The alternate model seems to work

Marc Andreessen on why hiring executives from the outside is riskier than it looks. @pmarca

Marc Andreessen on why perseverance matters: @pmarca

Marc Andreessen on product-market fit. “You don’t have a business until you have a product that a lot of people want.” “You can tell because the market’s pulling the product.” “Until you have that, time spent building the business around the product is pointless.” “Best case

Marc Andreessen on drive: @pmarca

Marc Andreessen on why startups need to scale to have impact: “Startups are where a lot of the innovation happens.” “The thing that startups can’t do until they become big companies is have a big impact on the world.” “You have to get big to have a big impact.” “Otherwise the

Marc Andreessen on being intensely curious: @pmarca

Aaron Levie: “I’m seeing these 19 and 20 year olds… everybody’s dropping out.” Why? Because they can build at 100x. This new cohort moves with unprecedented velocity, collapsing cycles and rewriting what company building looks like. @levie https://t.co/7bkfYHSIOG

Ben Horowitz on how to be a great product manager:

America spends more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, but 90% of those dollars are spent managing chronic conditions after people get sick. @truemed is changing that. Truemed enables consumers to spend HSA and FSA dollars on evidence-based lifestyle interventions,

Marc Andreessen on going direct, in 2013: “We’ve lived in this world... where content only comes from content companies.” “I think content is going to increasingly come from everybody.” “The stuff that we do is complicated and new.” “And so we’re trying to take more

Energy might not be the main bottleneck to AI: https://t.co/Zar8Sz2Eml

Flock Safety was instrumental in finding the suspect in the tragic murders we just saw at Brown and MIT. That case is just one powerful instance of the incredible work Flock does to enable America's law enforcement to succeed. Earlier this week, he shared with us that Flock