Anish Acharya
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), focused on consumer investing; previously founded SocialDeck, sold to Google, and Snowball, sold to Credit Karma, where he became VP of Product and then GM of its consumer product and credit card business.
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The fear of falling into an AI-made permanent underclass is a funny dark fantasy Silicon Valley seems to hold collectively.
it's a funny dark fantasy that we seem to have as, you know, Silicon Valley collectively.
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The fear of falling into an AI-made permanent underclass is a funny dark fantasy Silicon Valley seems to hold collectively.
it's a funny dark fantasy that we seem to have as, you know, Silicon Valley collectively.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
There will be no sudden fast takeoff in AI, even though model progress is happening faster than ever.
So, I don't believe that that's going to happen. I do think that model progress is happening faster than ever before.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
People may be overestimating how many problems are bound by intelligence rather than by other things.
So, I think we might be overestimating how many problems are intelligence bound versus bound by other things.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
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The most ambitious companies are rethinking everything around the models, while others are only giving existing teams access to AI.
So, I do think that like the most ambitious companies are rethinking everything around the models. And those that are a little less ambitious or perhaps a little earlier are thinking more about how do we give people and existing orgs existing job functions access to the technology.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Companies will probably come to run on a cascade of AI loops, from a loop per person up to loops that run large parts of the company.
So, I think we're going to see this sort of cascading set of everything from a loop per person, loop per job function, loop across entire business units to, you know, loops that can run large parts of the company.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
An AI loop can climb to a local maximum but then plateaus, and human intuition is needed to find the next hill.
you know, the loop will help you climb to the local maxima, but then it plateaus. And you need some sort of out of distribution thinking, you need human intuition, you need somebody to actually help you land at the base of the next hill.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
When every idea can be tried, many product managers will probably find they are not that good at zero-to-one work.
I think a lot of PMs are going to realize they're actually not that good at zero-to-one and it's much more fulfilling to work on someone else's good idea than your own bad idea.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Founders should ask how they would reorganize the company if AI were infinitely intelligent and astonishingly cheap, because that is where things are going.
Um I think the most useful question to ask yourself as a founder CEO is just, "Hey, if we assume these things are infinitely um intelligent and astonishingly cheap, how would we reorganize the company?" Cuz that's where we're going.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
AI models are not commodities, and people who think they are fungible have not actually used them.
I think for people who believe the models are commodities or totally fungible, you just haven't actually used the models.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
People do not really want to be more productive; more of them probably want to spend time than save it.
I think that we believe that people want to be more productive, but they don't. I think more people want to spend time than save time.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Forty years of computing built technology that extends the intellect but nothing that extends the soul.
Lenny, in many ways we spent 40 years building a technology that enables better spreadsheets, right? We built this like technology that extends our intellect, but nothing to extend our soul.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
AI that makes people feel more connected and loved is a product design challenge, not a model capability challenge.
How do we apply these tech this technology to those areas? That's what I want to see more of. And And again, I don't think it's a model or a capability challenge, it's just a product design challenge.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
AI unbundles skill from desire: someone can now make music without knowing how to play an instrument.
It kind of unbundles skill from desire. For example, if you want to make music, you can make music now. You don't have to know how to play the piano.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
The most important thing AI can do to change the public conversation about it is make important things like health care and education cheap.
The most important thing that we can do with AI to change the kind of conversation around it is make important things cheap. There's two things that are extraordinarily important in America that have only gotten more expensive, right? Health care and education.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Calling a model too dangerous to release conflates marketing, inference capacity and competitive considerations.
Um but I think the sort of concept of the model that's too dangerous to release, it it kind of conflates marketing, um inference capacity, and then also economic considerations like do you want to externalize your competitive advantage or use it to make yourself better?
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Human desires have always grown faster than the ability to fulfill them.
I mean, I think that the entire trend of human existence has been that our desires grow faster than our ability to fulfill them.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
None of the classic business moats are based on how hard the software is to make.
And then, I think the other is that we seem to have forgotten that the classic moats, none of the classic moats are based on how hard it is to make the software.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Big product ideas rest on a dozen invisible small ideas that a copier never sees.
I've learned in that the big ideas are always supported by a dozen small ideas that are invisible. And even if somebody replicates your big idea, they they never see the small ideas that make the big idea work.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
Nobody has a growth problem these days; they have a product problem.
I always say that nobody has a growth problem these days, they have a product problem.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
For investors today, the idea not worth engaging with is the one that is too small, where it used to be the one that was too ambitious.
I think today we're almost seeing the opposite problem where, you know, an idea that's too small is not something that we want to engage with.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Said 6 Sept 2026
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