The New Security Agenda
a16z General Partner Martin Casado has a new essay out today on the four philosophies that shape how investors evaluate deals. You should read it! You can find it here.
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Databricks & the Future of the Firm
How agents and new database technology will change the shape of the firm—and what we do at work all day
Let Chaos Reign, and Then Rein In Chaos
Replit for Business launched today! To hear more from Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, see his post here on the rise of the self-driving company.
Charts of the Week: Attention is All You Need
Welcome to this week’s charts. Before we get to them, we have something important to share first. Here’s a16z’s Joel de la Garza and Zane Lackey, with some timely advice we sent yesterday to our portfolio company CEOs, on the current cybersecurity emergency:
a16z Frontier
Today we’re announcing that we’re expanding the scope of our new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups: companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. To reflect this, we’re renaming a16z Crypto to a16z…
Why Hardware Specialization is Back
Thirty years ago, general-purpose chips beat specialized ones in the semiconductor industry’s great strategy debate. Today the same debate is back, but with new constraints.
Superhuman Hardware Design Is The Easy Part
We’re excited to announce that Orchestra Bio has been acquired by OpenAI. To read more about the acquisition, read Jay Rughani and Jorge Conde’s post about it here. For more general information on what OpenAI is up to in the Health space, check out our podcast with them here.