andrew chen(@andrewchen)

https://t.co/C6l9JixsOk

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:06:33 GMT

tech-week.com/calendar

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hey all- for folks who are in town (SF) Oct 5-11, we're hosting a ton of events, including at our ne...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:06:16 GMT

hey all- for folks who are in town (SF) Oct 5-11, we're hosting a ton of events, including at our new offices in Jackson Square.

details below.

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the SF/LA Tech Week calendar is LIVE 

2,300+ events across the two weeks. more than a 50% increase from last year.

some other cool stats:
- 1,580 events in SF, 762 in LA
- 14 tracks - fundraising, deep tech, AI agents, infra, devtools, hackathons, media, fintech and more
- 883 events on fundraising & investing. more than all of LA Tech Week in 2024.
- 80+ a16z and portcos hosting: deel, stripe, elevenlabs, pinecone, databricks, carta, fal, exa
- spacex, erebor, anthropic, google, aws, ibm, fenwick, hsbc, fireworks, vercel, pwc, fin, adobe, atlassian, cloudflare, hyperagent all showing up

congrats @roseajohnson@TracyMassaro_@KatiaAmeri@filgran_@johnsonjanellea and the whole Tech Week team for the awesome launch

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What % of the content we consume in 10 years will be AI generated?

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:38:50 GMT

What % of the content we consume in 10 years will be AI generated?

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the incoming DM just flipped to coming from @ turtlesoupy but @ EnforcementX is still up.. wtf..

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:29:13 GMT

the incoming DM just flipped to coming from @ turtlesoupy but @ EnforcementX is still up.. wtf..

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Pretty bad impersonation from @ EnforcementX Please help me report them for impersonation of @Suppo...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:45:09 GMT

Pretty bad impersonation from @ EnforcementX

Please help me report them for impersonation of @Support

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you want to spend zero time on the left. This is where AI wins - automating drudgery/workflows/costs...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:51:35 GMT

you want to spend zero time on the left. This is where AI wins - automating drudgery/workflows/costs

we want to spend our time on the right. More of it is about connection/entertainment/humanity - less verifiable, more novelty-seeking

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at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then sup...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:16:22 GMT

at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then supervised by a COO agent

What's the equiv for your personal?
- family
- personal finance
- health
- leisure/travel
... what else?

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i'd pay 2x for an iPhone where siri/dication/other AI features actually were good

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:24:41 GMT

i'd pay 2x for an iPhone where siri/dication/other AI features actually were good

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GTA7 is gonna be sick

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:16:05 GMT

GTA7 is gonna be sick

Matt Shumer@mattshumer_

GPT-6 Astra built this Manhattan world in Unreal Engine over the course of a week.

It was literally able to go street by street to make each one perfect.

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Pretty clear we're about to get a VR comeback, no?

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:41:39 GMT

Pretty clear we're about to get a VR comeback, no?

Thomas Ricouard@Dimillian

Astra is very good at 3D modeling, and I can't wait for all of you to experience it, for now here is a little walkthrough on how I built the demo house for our launch blog post. From a Blender scene to a Unreal Engine 5 walkable experience. 🧵

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2012: just add chat/DMs to your mobile app! 2026: just add notetaking to your AI app!

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:46:17 GMT

2012: just add chat/DMs to your mobile app!
2026: just add notetaking to your AI app!

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10x AI slop cannon > 10x engineer There I said it

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:04:22 GMT

10x AI slop cannon > 10x engineer

There I said it

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Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:31:47 GMT

Before AI:
- hardware is hard
- teams > solo founders
- technical founders only
- PhDs build tech in search of a problem
- hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multiples

After AI:
- hardware is the only thing AI can't build
- solo founders are 100x engineers
- anyone can build
- PhDs building AI infra name their price
- SaaSpocalypse

Am I missing anything?

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Post-AI video game development will either be three.JS or world models

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:11:19 GMT

Post-AI video game development will either be three.JS or world models

Three.js@threejs

15M npm downloads / week 🚀

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Coding in 2026: 100x side projects 0x actually shipping side projects

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:20:49 GMT

Coding in 2026:

100x side projects
0x actually shipping side projects

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boom i found it! https://t.co/JGztMvjuu9

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:21:38 GMT

boom i found it! github.com/remotehumans/r…

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I'm starting to think that one of the cheap Bluetooth rings that people buy into scroll TikTok could...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:09:38 GMT

I'm starting to think that one of the cheap Bluetooth rings that people buy into scroll TikTok could be used as a trigger?

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anyone set up a bluetooth ring that triggers voice transcription / @WisprFlow?

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:14:13 GMT

anyone set up a bluetooth ring that triggers voice transcription /  @WisprFlow?

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Hyperstition requires this to be in the Presidio

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:14:40 GMT

Hyperstition requires this to be in the Presidio

The White House@WhiteHouse

BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order establishing a new federal academy, THE UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY. 🚀🇺🇸

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👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:45:36 GMT

👇 we're paying for 20 folks to fly in across the world to attend SF Tech Week in Oct and attend our special events focused on global founders

details below

Troy Kirwin@tkexpress11

it’s live! we’re flying 20 top builders from around the world to San Francisco for Tech Week

Oct 5-11th

Applications for the Global Founder Sprint by @speedrun are now live

What?
- up to $3K to cover travel costs to SF (by @Airwallex)
- small dinner with a16z investors
- invites to VIP a16z events @Techweek_ 
- access to executive buyers & customers at our AI Faire
- US sales coaching

Who?
- very early global builders just thinking about starting

>>> Apply below! App open for 7 days <<<
a16zspeedrunsprint.com

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@sumeetparmar @signulll When you say, "I'm dating a model," that means different things in SF versus...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:07:08 GMT

@sumeetparmar@signulll When you say, "I'm dating a model," that means different things in SF versus NYC

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there’s daily active user, and there’s hourly active user every product with high-retention HAUs en...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:57:34 GMT

there’s daily active user, and there’s hourly active user

every product with high-retention HAUs end up being worth a trillion dollars

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waymo routes are insane now. Has anyone taken a SF to Sea Ranch drive yet? or LA to SD?

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:48:44 GMT

waymo routes are insane now. Has anyone taken a SF to Sea Ranch drive yet? or LA to SD?

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All the people talking to me about worktrees. Yes, exactly. I want the agents to just figure that ou...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:49:27 GMT

All the people talking to me about worktrees. Yes, exactly. I want the agents to just figure that out they're overlapping and to do it themselves, then I can adjudicate whatever actual issues are in conflict later

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lazymaxxing agentic coding: When i have multiple agents working on the same code repo, if there's co...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:17:02 GMT

lazymaxxing agentic coding:
When i have multiple agents working on the same code repo, if there's conflicts/overlaps, they just figure it out amongst themselves?

I want to have 8 tabs going on new features, and the agents just all auto handle the merging/testing/git/conflicts/etc without complaining about each other

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What's scarce in one era may not be scarce the next

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:07:58 GMT

What's scarce in one era may not be scarce the next

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does anyone know if there's a workaround to get the ChatGPT->Slack connector to connect more than...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:01:39 GMT

does anyone know if there's a workaround to get the ChatGPT->Slack connector to connect more than 1 workspace?

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2012: acquire company for users 2021: acquire company for engineers 2026: acquire company for traini...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:07:54 GMT

acquire company for users
acquire company for engineers
acquire company for training data

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what will come first: - AGI - cold emails that don't sound like AI slop

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:50:31 GMT

what will come first:
- AGI
- cold emails that don't sound like AI slop

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Last call. Deadline’s tomorrow if you want to host/co-host an event at Tech Week in SF or LA

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:17:26 GMT

Last call. Deadline’s tomorrow if you want to host/co-host an event at Tech Week in SF or LA

andrew chen@andrewchen

we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting coming up

If you want to co-host an event, the deadline is this Friday, 8/21

Want to run a panel, dinner, demo night, happy hour, we'll put it on the official calendar and send a ton of traffic and leads your way.

submit here: tech-week.com/host

Everyone will be there-  Anthropic, AWS, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Deel, Gamma, Google, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Canva, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Datadog, Elastic, Vercel, Cursor,, Fireworks, Exa, Deel, Okta, PwC, Fenwick, HSBC, Axios, Braintrust, Auth0, Fin, Hyperagent, HappyRobot

get in before Friday and you're part of the calendar launch in early September — a coordinated push across our 400K email list, the full host network, a16z and speedrun channels, and everywhere else we can reach.
this is the single biggest marketing moment we run all year. it trends on X every time. easiest exposure you'll get this fall

tech-week.com/host

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agent led growth

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:07:08 GMT

agent led growth

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if folks want to co-host at our new SF space for Tech Week, coming up in October, please ping us! @...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:33:08 GMT

if folks want to co-host at our new SF space for Tech Week, coming up in October, please ping us!

@roseajohnson@TracyMassaro_@KatiaAmeri

andrew chen@andrewchen

we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting coming up

If you want to co-host an event, the deadline is this Friday, 8/21

Want to run a panel, dinner, demo night, happy hour, we'll put it on the official calendar and send a ton of traffic and leads your way.

submit here: tech-week.com/host

Everyone will be there-  Anthropic, AWS, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Deel, Gamma, Google, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Canva, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Datadog, Elastic, Vercel, Cursor,, Fireworks, Exa, Deel, Okta, PwC, Fenwick, HSBC, Axios, Braintrust, Auth0, Fin, Hyperagent, HappyRobot

get in before Friday and you're part of the calendar launch in early September — a coordinated push across our 400K email list, the full host network, a16z and speedrun channels, and everywhere else we can reach.
this is the single biggest marketing moment we run all year. it trends on X every time. easiest exposure you'll get this fall

tech-week.com/host

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we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting ...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:49:24 GMT

we opened a new office in Jackson Square (woo!) just in time for SF/LA Tech Week that we're hosting coming up

If you want to co-host an event, the deadline is this Friday, 8/21

Want to run a panel, dinner, demo night, happy hour, we'll put it on the official calendar and send a ton of traffic and leads your way.

submit here: tech-week.com/host

Everyone will be there-  Anthropic, AWS, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Deel, Gamma, Google, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Canva, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Datadog, Elastic, Vercel, Cursor,, Fireworks, Exa, Deel, Okta, PwC, Fenwick, HSBC, Axios, Braintrust, Auth0, Fin, Hyperagent, HappyRobot

get in before Friday and you're part of the calendar launch in early September — a coordinated push across our 400K email list, the full host network, a16z and speedrun channels, and everywhere else we can reach.
this is the single biggest marketing moment we run all year. it trends on X every time. easiest exposure you'll get this fall

tech-week.com/host

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Quick observation on why AI has exploded at work, but has been slow to disrupt consumer apps: At wo...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:18:31 GMT

Quick observation on why AI has exploded at work, but has been slow to disrupt consumer apps:

At work, AI follows patterns and gets rid of drudgery (good!)

At home, AI follows patterns but it generates slop (bad!)

This is why AI has taken off at work, but not so much for consumer apps and experiences (social, entertainment, dating, etc)

Much of work is drudgery - filling out forms, following processes, writing updates, reviewing boilerplate code, etc. - and AI does a great job compressing this down the boring steps so that humans can focus on the high-leverage steps. The boring/routine work is not hard, but they often take a lot of steps and you have to stitch together a lot of data. You follow patterns. AI is good at following patterns too.

Consumer attention, on the other hand, is hard to win over because people crave novelty, seek parasocial relationships, and are so cognizant of AI slop. A video of an attractive person talking loses its ability to generate parasocial relationships. In domains like social media, video, etc where authenticity is paramount, a distorted AI sign in the background can ruin the entire thing. Novelty is generated by surfing the cultural wave with something new and unique - AI slop often pattern matches to the past, after all, it’s the past that’s in the data set, and as a result, new/unique is hard

This is a form of “adversarial creativity” - and it exists in business as well. When you think about inherently adversarial activities in business - like sales and marketing, where novel messaging, competitive move+countermove dominate - AI has received the most scrutiny for generating slop. No one wants the same sounding AI generated cold emails. No one wants to use AI slop software. You have to go outside the model in order to really land a message.

Perhaps this is the ultimate human-in-the-loop problem, because to do something fresh and unique requires adversarial creativity. Or maybe with enough advancements around being able to observe and react in real-time, future AI models will be able to say something novel by taking into account the X timeline from the past 24 hours.

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The real chart would be: - brilliant people - weather lol. This diagram was made by someone unambit...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:07:29 GMT

The real chart would be:
- brilliant people
- weather
lol.

This diagram was made by someone unambitious and uninterested in building the future. That’s why the “best value” cities are what they are, and why the “premium life” options are silly. Agree with @aporia9n below

Aporia@aporia9n

If you’re in your 20s (and ambitious) do everything to move to those 4 cities

Yes people will mog you for paying extortionate rents for such little comfort but who cares, you’re not everyone, you’re on a mission, you’re here for greatness

London/NYC/Paris/SF are basically the golden 4. They’re not just big cities, they’re global sorting machines. People move there from all over the world because they want sth badly enough to accept all the downsides. The guy born in London can be lazy. But the 26yo Frenchman, Indian, American, Italian, Nigerian, Lebanese etc who voluntarily accepts the tiny flat, shit commute and absurd rent to be there has already self-selected pretty hard

And that selection compounds. I felt it instantly moving from my hometown in France to London. Growing up I was always “the ambitious one” in my friend group. Then you arrive in London and suddenly you feel extremely average. Everyone is trying to do sth. Completely changes your reference point for what a normal person can achieve

The other thing is just how many serious games are happening at once. If you know at 22 that you’re going to be a semiconductor engineer forever, maybe there are better specialised places. But most ambitious 24yos have absolutely no clue what game they’ll eventually want to play. In London/NYC/Paris you can accidentally become friends with people in PE, startups, politics, law, media, fashion, pharma, academia etc. Your finance friend dates someone in fashion, their roommate is building a startup, you meet someone in politics at dinner. Suddenly 5 completely different lives feel plausible

That’s insanely valuable when you’re young precisely because you don’t yet know which people / industries / opportunities will matter to your 34yo self

SF is the weird exception because it’s basically one giant concentrated bet on tech/AI. Much narrower than the other 3, but that game is so asymmetric rn that it deserves its spot. If you want to build at the frontier there’s probably no other place where your reference class changes that aggressively

And yh everyone keeps saying the internet made geography irrelevant. Maybe for information. Definitely not for trust/friendship. Anyone can learn from the same people online now, send the same cold DM, follow the same accounts. Much harder to replicate being the guy someone has had 20 dinners with, worked with, travelled with, introduced to friends and randomly bumped into for 5 years

When you’re 24 and nobody knows who tf you are, geography can do a lot of the work for you. You get invited because your colleague knows someone. You end up at a dinner because your friend needs a +1. Someone you met 3 years ago leaves and starts a company. Another moves to NYC. Another becomes a partner somewhere. Most of the ROI is completely impossible to predict upfront

Basically before you have your own gravity, borrow the city’s

At 45, if you’ve built the company / reputation / money / audience / network, you can go live in Tuscany, Mallorca, South of France or wherever and people will come to you. At 24 no one is coming lol. You should probably be where everything is happening

And tbh if you have the ability to move I wouldn’t spend 3 years waiting for the perfect job / apartment / timing. Get the shitty room, accept being poorer for a while, figure it out once you’re there. Your 20s are probably the cheapest years of your life to tolerate inconvenience anyway

You can optimise sqm, weather and comfort later

At 24 I’d rather maximise how many possible lives are available to me

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(And no San Jose is not near SF)

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:05:50 GMT

(And no San Jose is not near SF)

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They just need one near SF and it’ll generate more $/sqft than the Apple Store lol

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:05:40 GMT

They just need one near SF and it’ll generate more $/sqft than the Apple Store lol

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loving the X feature where you can click on peoples’ profiles and see what country they are from lo...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:03:30 GMT

loving the X feature where you can click on peoples’ profiles and see what country they are from

lotta US AI haters from countries with very few AI startups, few AI models

andrew chen@andrewchen

Thank you Meta, NVIDIA, Google, Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Microsoft, for leading the way in American open weight AI models 🇺🇸

Muse, Nemotron, Gemma, Inkling, GPT-OSS, and Phi are just the start!

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microcenter is the new fry’s electronics

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:01:43 GMT

microcenter is the new fry’s electronics

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Thank you Meta, NVIDIA, Google, Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Microsoft, for leading the way in America...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:45:08 GMT

Thank you Meta, NVIDIA, Google, Thinking Machines, OpenAI, Microsoft, for leading the way in American open weight AI models 🇺🇸

Muse, Nemotron, Gemma, Inkling, GPT-OSS, and Phi are just the start!

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Deepseek v4 flash 0731 on 2x DGX Sparks 👌👌👌 It’s so good, so fast, low TTFT and very usable tok/...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:30:40 GMT

Deepseek v4 flash 0731 on 2x DGX Sparks 👌👌👌

It’s so good, so fast, low TTFT and very usable tok/s (50ish?). Best prosumer grade local AI setup rn

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why it's a red flag to hear "I asked my friends and they said X" as if it's a friend vote for any de...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:09:57 GMT

why it's a red flag to hear "I asked my friends and they said X" as if it's a friend vote for any decision, rather than reasoning from first principles

scott belsky@scottbelsky

the more people you consult for advice, the more likely you’ll make a bad/average decision. 

(1) ppl are, on average, risk averse...and, in quantity, will blunt your boldness.
(2) ppl may hate/envy opportunities they lack.
(3) ppl tend to mix cynicism (bad) w/ criticism (good)

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👇🏼some of the best new founders that will be doing great things in coming years!

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:27:53 GMT

👇🏼some of the best new founders that will be doing great things in coming years!

a16z speedrun 🧊@speedrun

you know what to do:
@sean_n_wu, @TrevorAbbott01, @pinakpaliwal, @nrol_ling, @FilipFWH, @sumukx, @NatKokoromyti, @_sunith_, @Ar_boian, @andy_x26, @calvinhhuangg, @henrycenhc, @AayushFromSpace 

alpha squad:
@KatiaAmeri, @justmazer, @meientc, @joegarciaisme, @andrewchen

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COMING SOON - a new a16z office launching in SF Want to guess the meeting room naming scheme?

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:07:18 GMT

COMING SOON - a new a16z office launching in SF

Want to guess the meeting room naming scheme?

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come work with me @roseajohnson and ex-growth folks from Replit, Slack, Instagram, Uber, and others....

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:14:32 GMT

come work with me @roseajohnson and ex-growth folks from Replit, Slack, Instagram, Uber, and others. we're building a Growth Marketing team at a16z speedrun

What you'll do:
- grow our audience of founders, at every stage, globally
- work across multiple channels: events, email, social, PR/comms, partnerships
- drive them to apply to our Speedrun program - owning KPIs
- craft our strategy, execute tactics, own it all end-to-end

more details here:
a16z.com/about/jobs/?gh…

apply or get an intro to us to get our attention!

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Come work w me and @roseajohnson on the Speedrun team! 👇🏼

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:50:06 GMT

Come work w me and @roseajohnson on the Speedrun team! 👇🏼

Rose Johnson@roseajohnson

we just kicked off speedrun 007 (our biggest cohort yet), and we're excited to share that we're hiring!

looking for a marketer to help grow the @speedrun brand. You'll own the campaign for founder applications and help us find even more amazing companies for future cohorts.

you'd work with me, @andrewchen, @SamiraBehrouzan, @Chen + the full a16z speedrun team. 

Application link 👉a16z.com/about/jobs/?gh…l - we'd love to meet you!

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the fragility of product/market is shown each week in the never ending race as AI models improve imp...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:09:22 GMT

the fragility of product/market is shown each week in the never ending race as AI models improve improve improve 

newer models make prior ones obsolete, showing that PMF isn’t just about your product’s features, but how it compares to alternatives across the ecosystem 

Product/market fit follows the frontier. What was perfectly good and powerful one week is ignored the next. I know that a few months ago I thought Opus 4.5 was amazing. Today I can’t imagine using it when Opus 5 is available

Thus your moat depends on your ability to deliver the next innovation, then the next after that…

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thanks @MiaAI_lab @0xSero @Tech2Wild @nvidia for showing us how to do this!

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:49:19 GMT

thanks @MiaAI_lab@0xSero@Tech2Wild@nvidia for showing us how to do this!

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honestly pretty incredible DSV4 Flash 0731 versus Opus 4.6:

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:41:55 GMT

honestly pretty incredible

DSV4 Flash 0731 versus Opus 4.6:

andrew chen@andrewchen

just installed DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on my dual DGX sparks for some weekend testing! Let’s go!!

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unfortunately it might turn out that press/PR will have renewed importance because although no one e...

andrew chen (@andrewchen) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:16:21 GMT

unfortunately it might turn out that press/PR will have renewed importance because although no one ever reads TechCrunch anymore, AI does..

Counterpoint is that the content written on substack/newsletters/social tend to be deeper with more quantity - so maybe a lot of LLM content will be drawn from that

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