my team at a16z @speedrun wants to invest in the best international startups with up to $1M via our Global Founders Program 🎆THIS MONTH🎆 for founders based outside of the US, getting here for speedrun can feel like such a daunting process that I suspect many choose not to

What's become increasingly clear over the past 2 years is that @cursor_ai is too busy building the future to look to left or right. Thrilled to back @cursor_ai again as they redefine how software gets built. Congrats on @mntruell and the entire team on your series D and onward

BIG NEWS! For the very first time, we’re adding a new city to Tech Week next year… Boston! 🎉 Boston will kick off a full run of back-to-back Tech Weeks, and will run the week before New York, and then we’re back in SF and LA in October. Boston has one of the most thriving

I think it might be time to drop a new Tech Week city… 👀

Everyone’s talking about agentic AI for defense — few are actually building it. Exia’s Blue enables AI-enhanced planning, simulation, and decision-making for warfighters through our patent-pending spatial reasoning technology. Join our live demos next week at Fort Campbell (18 -

Would you give up a "dream job" to chase your childhood dream? Elena did. This is her story.

you see the problem here right?

in the near future, knowledge workers will only be as good as their best *non consensus* ideas LLMs are serving up humanity's best collective wisdom in law, accounting, and HR, doing it faster than I can write an email, and at the marginal cost of inference and the "average"

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on Curing All Disease We sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to discuss their ambitious plan to cure, prevent, and manage all disease by the end of the century. CZI’s Biohub aims

seed investing is really about finding 1-2 really STRONG reasons to say yes. early on, every start-up has a hundred reasons to say no - the product is janky, the team is incomplete, the market is too competitive, etc instead, look past the obvious weaknesses every early start-up

I'm excited to announce the a16z New Media Fellowship. Or as many people are saying, the Thiel Fellowship for the terminally online. Finding highly functional people who are also very online is hard, so we are creating a fellowship to gather and train them in the art of New

two founders, 1 humanoid, 9 fingers and TWO open positions. @opensesame_dev is hiring a founding AI engineer and a founding design engineer in Toronto! OpenSesame careers: https://t.co/n8mNNyreWX Work at another @speedrun startup: https://t.co/2Lr1ZdbthL

Borderless Founders: Becoming the Benchmark I was born in a place the world saw as weak and foolish. I was told that borders define your potential. I have learned this is not true. The most exceptional people are born everywhere. They simply refuse to stay within boundaries. I

halloween made slightly less spooky by the little tikes house

Excited to host this event in Helsinki on November 19th! We’ll be joined by the founders of @fal and https://t.co/lctPjhJb1r to discuss what it takes to come to America and WIN.

David Sacks on Polytheistic AI, Better Crypto Regulation, Beating China, and Fixing SF David Sacks is the White House AI and Crypto Czar. He joined a16z’s Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg for a conversation covering the importance of beating China in the AI

if you think the idea of working 996 is preposterous / "no one actually does that", it's possible you've just never had a job you truly love, that you feel really matters and, if you think *thinking 996 is preposterous* is preposterous, consider yourself lucky - for 99% of

Congrats to @arielcoco, @itwig, and the entire @Navan team. Navan survived a global travel shutdown when COVID hit in 2020. Their resilience speaks for itself. We @a16z are incredibly proud of them, and their IPO today is a well-deserved milestone. Onward!

this 🐐 had a child during speedrun, what's your excuse?

Introducing the Great Lock In Weekend. 1000 teams compete to see who can get the most revenue in 7 days. We already have 2700+ applicants. Winners get $5k cash, potential job offers or scout checks from a16z sr. flying out 20 ppl to SF for IRL summit nov 8. Apply here:

“There’s something really special when every person in your company is also your customer.” @mjlbach from @hedra_labs at SF Tech Week 2025