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angela strange

@astrange

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General Partner (FinTech/Enterprise/AI) @a16z, proud Canadian, mom of 2 boys, distance runner; Previous: product leader

San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2007
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angela strange
8 months
It's time to challenge your assumption that XYZ market is too small to support a large vertical SaaS co. AI is making niche markets BIG by .1/ replacing labor (sales, marketing, customer support, back office) with software.2/ reducing customer acquisition cost (CAC) .👇🧵
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RT @arampell: Operation Chokepoint 3.0. Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto:. ht….
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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.
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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
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RT @nikitabase: This motion creates thousands of @neondatabase instances per day. Each can scale from 0 to supporting most demanding produc….
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angela strange
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“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 🚀
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angela strange
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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
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angela strange
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Name another (athletic) sport where an athlete has been a global champ for >15 years! (Federer '04-'18, Nadal '05-'22, Djokovic '08-'23). Perhaps the beginning of a new era w/ Sinner & Alcaraz. Will look at this chart next time I need motivation for more discipline/ stamina.
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angela strange
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Robots are still subject to basic economics. @Waymo supply/demand!
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RT @martin_casado: Move to SF! ✌️.
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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….
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"What do you believe now that you didn’t 2 years ago?". The most exciting AI companies are tackling the least exciting markets. Builders who deeply understand "boring" workflows - This is your time 🚀. 2x better -> now 10x.Only SW -> SW & Labor.Glacial sales -> Demand from CEO
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angela strange
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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.
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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
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RT @docyogi1: I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and.look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless. .
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angela strange
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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….
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angela strange
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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.
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angela strange
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1️⃣ A human needs to be able to give the agent a *role* and *scope*:.a. AgentA is humanX’s agent (role).b. AgentA is permissioned to buy X for <$Y (scope):. 2️⃣ A merchant needs to be able to understand the agent’s *role* and *scope*:.a. Understand that AgentA is humanX’s agent
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angela strange
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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 👇
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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….
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RT @nikitabase: I’m excited to share a major milestone: Neon is joining forces with @databricks. Together, we wil….
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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.
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RT @ClerkDev: Introducing Clerk Billing. The easiest subscription billing for B2B and B2C SaaS. No webhooks, no UI to build, no payment in….
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RT @thazhmon: From the beaches of Leblon to the boardrooms of LatAm - it was fun to wrap up Rio chatting with @marcelosampaio @astrange @a….
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