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AI is a world-defining category alongside the microprocessor, the steam engine, and electricity. Every one of them required an entirely new physical world to be built. We raised $1.1B to build this one.
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There's a fight being waged over how U.S. securities markets will move onchain.
One side wants to perpetuate intermediation. The other wants to open the door to disintermediation.
This week, @a16zcrypto again urged the SEC/CFTC to embrace the latter.
Scott Walker retweeted
This is a 2 minute video about taxing the wealthy.
There is no mention of programs it will fund. Or why the tax dollars are needed. Or what the money would be used for. Or how those less fortunate could be supported to themselves become wealthy.
The benefits are no longer the point.
The implicit message is about punishment. Punishing those doing well is now good politics.
Sign of the times —
It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.
10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed.
The system is fundamentally broken.
The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans.
It’s time for an economic reset.
substack.com/@gavinnewsom
Scott Walker retweeted
Teddy was always pure class on and off the field.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure will continue in heaven 🙏🏻
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We are deeply saddened to hear the news of coaches passing. Hard to even know where to start with a man like Coach Wolford. One of a kind and total servant to others. A blessing to the lacrosse community for all that he gave and a legend here in central Ohio. He will forever be remembered for his passion for the game and even more importantly his dedication to developing young men. He has touched the lives of so many. Grateful for the time we shared over the past 25 years and for all that he has done for me, my two boys and everything he has given to the medicine game & Upper Arlington community. A legend that will be forever remembered! Much love coach ❤️ RIP
Scott Walker retweeted
This week we posted four stories that point toward a future of open, programmable markets.
From tokenized securities to perps to onchain lending, financial infrastructure is being rebuilt to be more global, more liquid, and more software-driven.
Here’s what we published:
Scott Walker retweeted
Huge win for DeFi today.
The SEC's guidance on DeFi frontends makes one thing abundantly clear –– securities laws don't apply just because users are transacting in securities.
Rather, what matters is whether the frontend is exposing users to the same types of intermediary risks that securities laws were designed to address.
The SEC's guidance explains exactly what that means –– providing a roadmap for developers and addressing ambiguities in broker-dealer regs that were inappropriately weaponized against the industry by the prior admin.
Critically, order routing isn't prohibited. But where it is done, apps need to be completely transparent so users aren't subjected to conflicts of interest risk. That makes sense and is an honest application of existing law.
This is what effective policy looks like. Huge thanks are owed to the SEC CTF for advancing this and bringing clarity for developers.
Scott Walker retweeted
Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.
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I am excited to expand our partnership with @BoozAllen
We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking, multi-year partnership with Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z), one of the world’s most influential venture capital firms. As a16z’s first-ever Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments, Booz Allen will bring our mission expertise and tech industry leadership to a16z’s world-class portfolio of 1,000+ top tech companies.
Through this partnership, Booz Allen will accelerate how we co-create, scale, and deploy highly differentiated commercial tech into critical U.S. missions—strengthening America’s security, technological supremacy, and prosperity like never before. Let’s go: boozallen.co/3Z8yhRG
Scott Walker retweeted
We don’t need to choose between innovation and safety. America can build world-class AI products while protecting its citizens from harms.
Read the full piece on how we can protect Americans and win the future: a16zpolicy.substack.com/p/a-…
@jai_ramaswamy @Collin_McCune @MattPerault
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If you want to make America great for real:
Join an elite group of technologists to transform the federal government through modern software development. Go to TechForce.gov to apply today
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Excited to announce that @a16zcrypto is expanding into Asia and opening our first office in Seoul, South Korea. As part of this, we’re thrilled to have @sungmo_apac16z join our team as Head of APAC go-to-market to lead the Seoul office and start building our presence in the region.
Our expansion will offer go-to-market support for portfolio companies seeking to accelerate growth, forge strategic partnerships, and build lasting communities across Asia. SungMo will work closely with the founders in our portfolio, and also in his corporate network, to strengthen market connectivity and accelerate crypto adoption across the continent.
@sungmo_apac16z brings deep experience and expertise across both enterprise and crypto-native ecosystems. Most recently, he was APAC Lead at Monad Foundation, where he built out their go-to-market and ecosystem strategies across East Asia, Greater China, South East Asia and India. Prior to Monad, he was Head of APAC Business Development at Polygon Labs, where he led enterprise partnerships and collaborations with emerging crypto projects. He speaks four languages: Korean, Japanese, Chinese and English.
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Had a great conversation with @milesjennings at @BlockchainAssn Policy Summit yesterday. At the SEC, we’re working to advance clear rules of the road that encourage investment in our economy and provide a firm regulatory foundation for digital assets.
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I had a great time chatting with @patrick_oshag on @InvestLikeBest. I've known Patrick since college, and this is the first time we've talked markets and investing at this much depth.
The fundamentals of company building haven’t changed: people, products, and markets matter.
But obviously, private markets have evolved substantially over my career: there are now ~6x more private unicorns than public companies with a $1b+ market cap. And at the end of 2010, just 2 public technology companies were among the top 10 in market cap; today it’s 8 of 10.
AI (alongside software eating everything more generally) is clearly driving a lot of this. But it’s instructive to look at everything from the steam engine, to the early days of Facebook and Google user monetization, to real-time success stories like Databricks, Anduril, OpenAI and Waymo, to get a clear picture of where the opportunities lie.
It was a pleasure to go deep on all this and more!
.@DavidGeorge83 leads @a16z Growth, which has backed some of the most successful technology companies including Stripe, SpaceX, Waymo, Databricks, Figma, OpenAI, and Cursor.
This conversation is a detailed look at how David built and runs the growth business. He shares how they win the most competitive deals, the principles behind its culture, and the framework he uses to evaluate companies.
We discuss how a16z is investing across the AI stack -- from model providers to applications -- and why this platform shift creates a real window for startups to displace incumbents.
Throughout the episode, David shares the models that guide his investing: why markets misprice consistent growth, what makes "pull" businesses so powerful, and why he likes to back a certain kind of founder he calls the "technical terminator."
It’s fun to talk with students of the game, and David is certainly one of them. He's spent his career studying great companies, markets, and founders, and you can feel that depth in how clearly he connects patterns across cycles.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
6:54 Enterprise AI
10:23 Lessons from Waymo
16:17 Technical Terminators
22:34 The "Glengarry Glen Ross" Rule
31:23 Winning Competitive Deals
42:24 The "Yankees" Mindset
46:13 Decision Making
51:12 Model Busters
53:42 Push vs. Pull Markets
1:10:23 How Startups Beat Incumbents
1:13:38 The Kindest Thing
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🚨 New: We built @a16z's personal GPU AI Workstation Founders Edition
- 4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Max-Q (384GB total VRAM)
- 8TB of NVMe PCIe 5.0 storage
- AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX (32 cores, 64 threads)
- 256GB ECC DDR5 RAM
- 1650Watts at peak (runs on a standard 15Amp/120V circuit).
For training, AI research, and deploying models locally. A datacenter-class AI rig you can keep under your desk.
We are planning to make a limited number of these a16z AI Workstations.
Build guide + how you can make your own 👇
