Building Better Communities with Flock Safety
Respecting privacy and building trust with communities is essential to effectively integrate technology into public safety. a16z general partner David Ulevitch, Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley, and Las...
17 Jan 202423min
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 Des 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 Des 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 202331min
AI Revolution: Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer, Character.ai CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z's Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI's first use...
27 Sep 202318min
