My First 16: Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring fo...
12 Joulu 202335min
My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret
In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Zach Perret, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, about how Plaid built a community in the early days to acquire customers, how they tracked “free radi...
5 Joulu 202333min
My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with the founder and current executive chairman of Marqeta Jason Gardner about what it means to be welded to your customer and how to expand in multiple...
28 Marras 202332min
My First 16: Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
In a new episode of My First 16, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Pilot Waseem Daher on how he thought about the importance of charging, how secondary signals often matter in ...
21 Marras 202327min
Sales–Product Tension, the Secret to Segment’s Success
Sales wants more features. Product gets bogged down with one-off requests. Progress and growth grinds to a halt. It's a familiar story. How Segment turned the sales-product tension into a successful $...
17 Marras 202332min
My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
In a new episode of My First 16, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a “minimum delightful product” in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math ...
14 Marras 202331min
AI Revolution: Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how can AI be used to improve AI, in conversation with a16z's Anjney Midha. [0:59] Dario's background[2:45] GPT...
27 Syys 202321min
