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44 quotes from Andrew Chen, Steven Sinofsky, David George, Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Marc Andreessen
- The solo founder is part of a list of maybe new archetypes that I think we’ll soon see a lot more of - and I’ll make both the pro and con case for each here: Solo founders Why: Solo founders can do 100x with AI, so they can ship a v1 when previously they couldn’t have before Why not: Maybe a team of cofounders still makes more progress.Unverified
- These days at a16z I’m mostly working on Speedrun , where we write the first check into brand new startups (up to $1M), and a lot of what we focus on is founder backgrounds/profiles. What are the right ones? How will the profiles change as we enter the age of AI?Unverified
- If the content creation loop works for agentic virality, I think it means there’s a big incentive for every agent to volunteer to make visually-appealing, shareable content, do this often.Unverified
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- AI is fantastic at automating tasks that have verifiable outcomes, which is why we’re seeing amazing strides from coding, mathematical proofs, and workplace productivity is an extension to that.
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- That’s a fair question at the dawn of the AI age when an app might take about as much time to build as editing a Youtube video. So this means average product retention will collapse, and the days of seeing >20% D30 will feel like a dream.
- The future of marketing (and by extension, a large swath of product) is zero-sum and PvP - the abundance of apps/videos/pods/creators/experiences will mean we have infinity times more supply than demand.
- Every quote from Andrew Chen
- In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.
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- The easiest algorithm I have for this is to ask if some new technology will be used by the government alone before it is approved or neutered for use by everyone else. If that is the case then history tells us the technology is being used for control or even oppression first and foremost.
- Every quote from Steven Sinofsky
- But the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable.
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- Doomers want you to ignore the history of innovation, freeze-frame the collapsing cost of cognition, and call it the whole movie.
- Here’s the thing, though: precedent (and intuition) shows that when the cost of a powerful input falls, the economy does not politely stand still.
- That is what a real general-purpose technology does: it reorganizes the economy and expands the frontier of useful work.
- Every quote from David George
- If America fails to win technologically, it will lose economically, militarily, geopolitically, and culturally.
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- AI projects, on the other hand, are taking far more capital, by far smaller teams, and turning that into historic growth rates for both new users and revenue.
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- I’d argue that whether or not AGI emerges from a single model, the impact of this meta economic machinery is functionally similar. That is, it reduces a massively broad class of technical problems to simply a matter of economics.
- In fact, we’ve gotten so good at scaling AI with GPUs that power not compute is the primary limitation.
- There’s a reason the fastest-growing AI companies are hiring software engineers as fast as they can.
- Every quote from Martin Casado
- But with AI, we fast-forwarded: from paradigm to tools in under a decade, now used by hundreds of millions.
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- The challenge is the future doesn’t just wait around for everyone to come to a consensus.
- Writing and learning with AI is the typewriter, the word processor, the encyclopedia, and the almanac rolled into one. Seeing it as something scarier than that is just fear of new tools and new paradigms.
- Every quote from Steven Sinofsky
- Enterprise IT is excited because one big promise of AI, especially agentic AI, is that everything will connect to everything.
- Code will be more of a disposable commodity, with less reuse, and instead generated on the fly for personalized use.
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- In recent years, innovative AI products that didn’t build their own models were derided as low-tech “GPT wrappers.” Yet consumer products for the past few decades have been low-tech, with seemingly small moats and yet have generated huge value.
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- It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.
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- But despite all the hubbub and competing interests, there actually is a reasonable policy position the United States can take: to focus on marginal risk and apply our regulatory energy there.
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- In the end, we might conclude the best policy for human welfare is to invest aggressively in AI rather than to encumber it.
- We should only depart from the existing regulatory regime, and carve new ground, once we understand the marginal risks of AI relative to existing computer systems.
- Every quote from Martin Casado
- Regulatory agencies are being green lit in real time to do the same to Artificial Intelligence.
- Artificial Intelligence has the potential to uplift all of humanity to an unprecedented quality of living and must not be choked off in its infancy. We can do this by requiring that AI behaves within the law and rules of our society without regulating math, FLOPs, methods of R&D, and other misguided ideas.
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- We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.
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- We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think. We believe Artificial Intelligence is best thought of as a universal problem solver.
- We believe that if we make both intelligence and energy “too cheap to meter”, the ultimate result will be that all physical goods become as cheap as pencils.
- Every quote from Marc Andreessen
- AI is highly likely to be the control layer for everything in the world.
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- AI is quite possibly the most important – and best – thing our civilization has ever created, certainly on par with electricity and microchips, and probably beyond those. The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future.
- Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
- In our new era of AI: Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love.
- My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error.
- Every quote from Marc Andreessen
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