
angela strange
@astrange
Followers
25K
Following
1K
Media
61
Statuses
641
General Partner (FinTech/Enterprise/AI) @a16z, proud Canadian, mom of 2 boys, distance runner; Previous: product leader
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2007
RT @arampell: Operation Chokepoint 3.0. Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto:. ht….
financialservices.house.gov
0
32
0
Narrow products are the future: we might pay more, but only for what's 100x better. Well articulated by @illscience @a16z .This shift is coming soon to B2B too .Why? w/ vibe coding the people with taste and market insights can now build too.
For years, we assumed consumers wouldn’t pay for software. Now people are happily paying $200+/mo for products like Claude, Grok 4 Heavy and Gemini. Not because they’re for everyone, but because they’re 100x better for someone. The free tier is the funnel. The real product is
2
0
10
RT @nikitabase: This motion creates thousands of @neondatabase instances per day. Each can scale from 0 to supporting most demanding produc….
0
2
0
“Everyone can cook!”.@rauchg’s @v0 is scary good now. Backend hooked up to @neondatabase or @supabase in minutes—by me, a PM (mech eng background not CS!).If you have an idea & the ability to articulate it… you can ship. Let’s build 🚀
3
6
51
Financial Services x AI is still Day 1. • What infra will power agentic payments?.• How can LLMs reason over bank data?.• Who’s building the AI-native layer for every core function?.I find the sharpest signal on what’s next at @moov_io @fintechdevcon — join us! @wadearnold
1
1
7
RT @nikitabase: You can fight the trend of vibe coding saying it's not for "real engineers" or not for "production workloads". No one will….
0
13
0
One of the more critical (yet hardest!) things to do as a board member is to deliver the "strongest version of the truth" in a way that the CEO can hear it, and it results in a productive discussion. @illscience at @a16z scout event this week.
Bad board member archetypes:.1 - Too rich to care (doesn't do the work).2 - Ideas guy (also doesn't do the work).3 - Fake friend (doesn't tell the truth). The best board members are high truth, low anxiety
5
3
18
RT @omooretweets: 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? H….
0
28
0
The networks (@Visa , @Mastercard ), PSPs (@stripe , @PayPal ) etc. are all racing to secure their place in the agentic commerce future. The browser is perhaps best positioned to act as verifier between human, AI agent, and merchant - and even as a launch pad for agentic.
0
0
2
The browser wars are back! With some new players -- @perplexity_ai @OpenAI prompting default browser or search status. Why? The world where any consumer or business can deploy an agent to make purchases on their behalf is not far away BUT 👇
4
1
6
RT @illscience: I had a fun conversation last week with @PeterDiamandis and the Moonshots crew; here is a clip where we cover models and th….
0
12
0
RT @nikitabase: I’m excited to share a major milestone: Neon is joining forces with @databricks. Together, we wil….
neon.com
Together, we will build the best Postgres experience in the world and one of the most important pieces of the modern AI-native app stack.
0
39
0
RT @thazhmon: From the beaches of Leblon to the boardrooms of LatAm - it was fun to wrap up Rio chatting with @marcelosampaio @astrange @a….
0
5
0