Anish Acharya
a16z general partner focused on consumer investing
a16z general partner focused on consumer investing
Every podcast episode featuring Anish Acharya that Attunex has found: 58 interviews and appearances across 25 shows between 2019 and 2026. Most often on The a16z Show (29), 16 Minutes News by a16z (3) and TBPN (2). Often in conversation with Erik Torenberg, Lauren Murrow and Kevin Rose. Follow Anish in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Building Inside a16z: Anish Acharya on Conviction, Theses, and Firm-Craft a16z General Partner Anish Acharya opens up the operating system inside Andreessen Horowitz: why the firm runs on…
a16z General Partner Anish Acharya sits down with Assistant Benchmark creator David Pawlan to unpack the sudden explosion of personal AI agents and what it will take for one to become part of…
(00:46) - Dario Gets the SNL Treatment (09:24) - Dario's Private Dinner with Trump (12:15) - Cambridge Warns of AI Acceleration (16:59) - Anthropic Investor Fears AI? (21:57) - Inside Instinct's…
Senior reporter Anne Sraders has just spent two weeks in New York, and one thing was impossible to miss: AI was everywhere. From subway ads to investor breakfasts, it was the only conversation in…
In this 40 Minute Mentor episode, we’re joined by James Lo, Co-Founder of Ethos, and Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, for a conversation about building the most human AI tech in…
a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joins Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny’s Podcast to discuss why fears of an AI-driven “permanent underclass” may be misplaced, how AI is changing the way companies operate,…
在Bayt播客上收听任何播客的中文翻译音频，并查看双语字幕： 安卓：https://baytfm.com iOS：https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6748532039 📝 本期播客简介 本期我们翻译了《Lenny's Podcast》中 Lenny 与 a16z 合伙人 Anish Acharya 的对话。AI…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) 原内容更新时间：Sun, 06 Sep 2026 本期由 Lenny Rachitsky 主持，嘉宾是 a16z 普通合伙人 Anish…
Anish Acharya says companies are becoming a series of AI loops, and the fear of a 'permanent underclass' is wrong. We dig into what that actually means for your job, your career, and whether you're…
Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and in-the-weeds product…
章节时间戳 00:00 开场 00:38 精讲：OpenAI 首席科学家解释为何 AI 正成为异类心智 03:36 精讲：Spotify 工程师用 Portal 为 Claude Code 节省九成上下文 05:56 精讲：a16z Anish Acharya 解析 AI 原生企业的层层业务循环 08:18 重点 4–6：OpenAI 研究加速、AI Agents 分布式系统、Axiom…
In this condensed version of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny Rachitsky and a16z's Anish Acharya cut through the AI hype to explain why companies are becoming a series of loops. Instead of a fast-takeoff…
Anish Acharya joins Jen Kha to break down the next frontier of AI, from the evolving model landscape and open-source AI to why the application layer, and consumer AI in particular, may be entering a…
AI is shifting from clever demos to real-world operators that can shop, automate, and reshape consumer products. In this condensed a16z Podcast episode, hosts and guest Anish Acharya break down the…
Anish Acharya is joined by Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, for a conversation about how AI is rewriting the startup playbook, why founders should be more ambitious than ever, and what…
Anish Acharya speaks with Microsoft VP of Design John Maeda and Impeccable founder and CEO Paul Bakaus about how AI is changing the practice of design. The conversation explores the relationship…
Anish Acharya sits down with Josh Elman to discuss the future of consumer technology and Josh's decision to join a16z. Over the past two decades, Elman has helped shape some of the most important…
Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore speak with Pablo Palafox and Luis Paarup about the challenges of deploying AI agents in operationally complex industries. The conversation covers the evolution of voice…
#278: Is AI making it possible for the average person to live a fully optimized life? Chris and Anish swap notes on how custom AI tools are replacing years of spreadsheets, and reshaping the way we…
This episode originally aired on The Kevin Rose Show. Kevin Rose speaks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about how AI is rewriting the rules of consumer software, the defensibility of…
New episode just dropped. I sat down with Anish Acharya, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and one of the most plugged-in consumer investors in tech. We worked together at Google years ago, and…
Erik Torenberg and Anish Acharya, general partners at a16z, speak with signüll about how technology reshapes culture, relationships, and the products we build. The conversation covers tacit knowledge…
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every day, why coding agents feel like slot machines, and what…
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Today on BILLIONS, I'm sitting down with Anish Acharya. He sold his first company to Google. His second to Credit Karma — then stayed and helped scale their U.S. Card business to nearly a billion…
Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Claude on web, how the three major platforms…
In this episode from 20VC, Harry Stebbings talks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about the future of SaaS in an AI world. Anish argues that software is completely oversold and that the…
Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads consumer and fintech investing at Series A. He serves on the boards of standout portfolio companies including Deel,…
When AI rewrites the rules of software, where does the real value land? (Original: 1 hour — Condensed: 4 minutes.) Harry Stebbings sits down with Anish Acharya of a16z to challenge the thesis that…
As 2025 comes to a close, consumer AI is entering a new phase. A small number of products now dominate everyday use, multimodal models have unlocked entirely new creative workflows, and the big labs…
Multimodal models are here, and product strategy — not just model quality — is deciding winners in consumer AI. This condensed 3-minute summary (original 43 minutes) from the a16z Podcast and the…
本期您将听到： A16Z 合伙人 Anish Acharya 讨论消费科技的复兴。 “现在创办 AI 公司是否为时已晚？”“消费科技”的窗口期是否已经关闭？根据 a16z 普通合伙人 Anish Acharya 的观点，我们实际上正进入自 2009 年 App Store 上线以来最令人兴奋的产品周期。 在本期 a16z 播客中，Anish 与 Ollie Forsyth…
Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is enabling 100M-user products at unprecedented speed,…
with @cdixon @illscience Welcome to web3 with a16z crypto. Today’s episode digs into the forces shaping the next generation of consumer software — from AI-driven tools to the new economics of apps.…
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Anish Acharya , General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz , who has spent many years at the frontier of consumer products — from early days at Google to building…
(00:31) - Isaacman Back in Cockpit at NASA (20:44) - Google Takes AI to Space (26:09) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:18:31) - Cliff Obrecht, co-founder and COO of Canva, discusses the company's growth to…
Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Wabi and AI pioneer behind Replika, joins Erik, Anish, and Justine to reveal how personal software will transform from a developer monopoly to a creative medium for all. She…
In this episode, a16z's Anish Acharya joins Kevin Rose for an in-depth, fast-paced conversation on the rebirth of consumer technology, and how AI is reshaping what it means to build, invest, and…
Why do some consumer products explode into networks that reshape the internet, while others fade away? Today on the podcast, a16z general partners Anish Acharya and Chris Dixon take on that question.…
Anish Acharya is an entrepreneur and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on consumer investing and AI-native products. In this episode, he demonstrates how AI can be used for creative…
In this episode of ‘This Week in Consumer’, a16z General Partners Anish Acharya and Erik Torenberg are joined by Steven Sinofsky - Board Partner at a16z and former President of Microsoft’s Windows…
In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg is joined by the a16z Consumer team—General Partner Anish Acharya and Partners Olivia Moore, Justine Moore, and Bryan Kim—for a conversation on…
Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://bit.ly/METATRENDS Anish Acharya is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the…
This week on Turpentine VC, we are releasing an episode from The Cognitive Revolution, hosted by Nathan Labenz. Nathan sits down with Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya from Andreesen Horowitz to discuss…
This month, a16z’s Consumer team released the fourth edition of the GenAI 100 — a data-driven ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products and mobile apps, based on unique monthly visits and active…
In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, host Nathan Labenz speaks with Andreessen Horowitz partners Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya about the rapid evolution of voice AI technology and its…
AI voice technology has been around for years — think Siri or Alexa — but the magic has been missing. That’s changing, and quickly! In this episode, Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z, and Olivia…
Last week was another big week in technology. Google’s NotebookLM introduced its Audio Overview feature, enabling users to create customizable podcasts in over 35 languages. OpenAI followed with…
Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, dives deep into the transformative potential of AI in the consumer technology sector. Anish discusses a16z’s "Abundance Agenda," detailing how…
On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders behind some of the most popular AI creative tools,…
In this episode, a16z partners Justine Moore and Anish Acharya join Nathan to discuss the AI Abundance Agenda, their latest thesis for consumer AI. They discuss the intersection of weird and working,…
Lex chats with Anish Acharya - a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the…
At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023. Emerging from this exercise came 40+…
In this episode of a16z Live, we are joined by Titan Invest co-founder and co-CEO Clayton Gardner; a16z General Partner Anish Acharya; and a16z growth partner, Alex Immerman. The trio starts their…
This week, student loans are back in the news, with the administration's announcement of a plan to forgive student loan debt for certain kinds of borrowers. Outside of the specific policies, though,…
Back in 2018, Alex Bouaziz and his co-founder Shuo Wang picked up on the trend of remote work and founded Deel , a startup that helps companies of all sizes compliantly hire and pay talent remotely…
This week’s Future of Fintech is on the future of automated finances, discussing whether people prefer picking investments vs. having it automated, how the pandemic influenced this space, and…
The intersection of social and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money online—have given way to an ambitious new wave of financial products. While revealing one’s…
Miguel Armaza sits down with Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), where he invests primarily in financial services and adjacent technologies. Prior to joining A16Z, Anish…
Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit…
Anish Acharya, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, shares how his product background has helped guide his investment choices and shaped his belief that fintech products must put customer empathy…
The role of a product manager isn't the same today as it was as recently as 10 years ago. Similarly, the role of a PM is different as a company grows. How does the role of a PM change? As part of our…
The last financial crisis prompted many consumers to reassess their banking expectations—none more so than millennials and Gen-Z-ers. While revealing one's financial information was once considered…
This episode of 16 Minutes on the news covers: all the recent fintech acquisitions! from Intuit announcing it's acquiring Credit Karma this week to Morgan Stanley announcing it's acquiring E-trade…
This episode of 16 Minutes on the news covers: FICO credit score changes, what are they, do they matter? -- with a16z fintech general partners Angela Strange and Anish Acharya;electronic health…
This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in tech -- and…
with @illscience and @smc90 This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our…