A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers generating some of the highest paying salaries out there.

But the field is quickly shifting, especially with the advent of wide-scale AI. In this podcast, we get to chat with Amjad Masad, founder of Replit, about these foundational shifts.

We cover how Replit has integrated AI into its platform and the implications on both current and future developers. It’s easier than ever to learn to code, but is it still worthwhile? Listen in to find out.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 02:04 – What is Replit?
• 04:15 – Stories behind Replit
• 11:10 – The software hero’s journey
• 13:09 – Making coding fun
• 15:58 – AI powering software
• 19:37 – Training your own models
• 22:36 – Building UX around AI
• 24:16 – The developer landscape
• 26:23 – The 1000x engineer
• 30:40 – Should you still learn to code?
• 34:41 – What does AI enable?
• 40:54 – Developing on mobile
• 43:24 – A software labor market
• 45:53 – Differentiating a marketplace
• 48:23 – Building new market dynamics
• 50:45 – Looking ahead

Resources: 

Replit: https://replit.com/

Replit Ghostwriter: https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter

Replit Bounties: https://replit.com/bounties

Find Amjad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amasad

 

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A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, billion! — since the launch of the App Store in 2008, highlighting the cast opportunity in the marketplace.

And around the same time, a16z Consumer Partner, Olivia Moore, compiled a list of the top apps across the US app store throughout 2022.

In this episode, you’ll get to hear which apps made it to the top and what they have in common. Hint: the big winners were in social, but perhaps a new wave of social apps!

We also get the scoop on what it really takes to not just hit #1, but stay there. This episode highlights numerous surprising examples ranging from a new-age Beanie Baby app, a viral talking dog, an app from 2012 that finally broke the top 10, and the Chinese app that’s been at #1 for a majority of 2023, and it’s not TIkTok!

There are endless learnings about how new founders can take advantage of these opportunities.

Timestamps:

• 01:51 – Top apps in 2022
• 03:32 – A new era of social?
• 07:22 – Hitting #1
• 09:30 – Staying on top
• 11:20 – Building a sticky product
• 13:46 – Growing an app in 2023
• 15:35 – User-generated growth
• 17:48 – 2022 category winners
• 20:39 – Anonymous social
• 22:24 – Early monetization
• 26:30 – Monetization trends
• 31:07 – Leveraging platform shifts
• 35:26 – Surprising hits
• 37:50 – Looking toward 2023
• 39:38 – Invisible AI products
• 41:46 – Limiting virality
• 45:13 – Vertical social networks
• 48:37 – When digital goes physical
• 51:44 – TikTok growth
• 53:27 – Geographic trends
• 56:18 – A decade old app
• 1:00:25 – App challenge

Resources: 

• Follow Olivia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/omooretweets
• Olivia’s 2022 analysis: https://twitter.com/omooretweets/status/1605983056682045440
• Olivia’s 2021 analysis: https://twitter.com/omooretweets/status/1483482099562602500
• Justine’s Boating app commentary: https://twitter.com/venturetwins/status/1616121691830390784
• Olivia’s Tinder subscription commentary: https://twitter.com/omooretweets/status/1616480480546942976

Apps mentioned: 

• BeReal: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bereal-your-friends-for-real/id1459645446
• TikTok: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tiktok/id835599320
• Gas App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gas/id1641791746
• Talking Ben the Dog: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/talking-ben-the-dog/id416345319
• Argo Boating Navigation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/argo-boating-navigation/id1463869636
• NoteIt: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noteit-widget-get-it-now/id1570369625
• Locket Widget: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/locket-widget/id1600525061
• LiveIn: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/livein-share-your-moment/id1606780589
• Slay: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/slay-komplimente-umfragen/id1645858841
• Lensa AI: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lensa-photo-editing/id1436732536
• Starlink: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starlink/id1537177988
• NOAA Weather: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noaa-weather/id436760574
• Stardust Period Tracker: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardust-period-tracker/id1495829322
• Temu: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/temu-team-up-price-down/id1641486558
• SquadApp: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/squadapp-collection-database/id1623120952
• TravelBoast: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travelboast-my-journey-routes/id1476504378
• Subway Surfers: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/subway-surfers/id512939461

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Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs, founders, or journalists – had something to say.

But the one person that you didn’t hear from was Adam himself.

In this never-before shared footage from a16z’s American Dynamism Summit in Washington DC, Adam Neumann sits down with Marc Andreessen and David Ulevitch, to discuss the opportunities that have emerged from post-pandemic shifts in both work and home, and what Flow is doing to capitalize.

Find the full library of American Dynamism Summit recordings at a16z.com/ad-summit.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:40 – Getting back in the arena 
• 09:03 – The opportunity in housing 
• 16:19 – Lessons from WeWork 
• 19:13 – Work & home post-pandemic 
• 27:34 – Moving to the cloud 
• 34:23 – Office serendipity 
• 37:51 – Building Flow 
• 43:51 – Cities as startups

Resources:

Flow’s website: https://www.flow.life/

American Dynamism recordings: https://a16z.com/ad-summit

 

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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+ builder-worthy pursuits for the year, ranging from entertainment franchise games to precision delivery of medicine to small modular reactors, and of course loads of AI applications.

In our 2-part series, we’ll be covering 12 of these big ideas with the partners that shared them.

Here in part 2, we’ll cover Fintech, American Dynamism, and Bio & Health. Listen in as we chat with Anish Acharya, Angela Strange, Michelle Volz, Ryan McEntush, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo.

And for the full list of 40+ ideas, check out the full article: https://a16z.com/2022/12/15/big-ideas-in-tech-2023/

Topics Covered:

• (0:59) GPT Unlocks Credit Counseling – Anish Acharya
• (9:53) Compliance as a Competitive Advantage – Angela Strange
• (23:31) Small Modular Reactors Advance the Nuclear Renaissance – Michelle Volz
• (33:48) Overhauling the Space Supply Chain – Ryan McEntush
• (44:40) The Biggest Company in the World – Vijay Pande
• (51:17) The Value-Based Care Stack – Julie Yoo

Resources:

https://a16z.com/2022/11/02/america-space-age/

https://a16z.com/2022/11/11/the-biggest-company-in-the-world/

https://a16z.com/2021/01/08/the-new-tech-stack-for-virtual-first-care/

 

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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+ builder-worthy pursuits for the year, ranging from entertainment franchise games to precision delivery of medicine to small modular reactors, and of course loads of AI applications.

In our 2-part series, we’ll be covering 12 of these big ideas with the partners that shared them.

Here in part 1, we’ll cover Consumer, Games, and Enterprise, with a little Fintech sprinkled in. Listen in as we chat with Connie Chan, Anne Lee Skates, Jack Soslow, Doug McCracken, Sarah Wang, and Sumeet Singh.

And look out for part 2 dropping soon, covering Fintech, American Dynamism, and Bio & Health!

For the full list of 40+ ideas, check out the full article: https://a16z.com/2022/12/15/big-ideas-in-tech-2023/

Topics Covered:

• (1:30) Breakthroughs in Buying (Finally!) – Connie Chan
• (16:40) Unlocking the “Third Place” – Anne Lee Skates
• (30:14) Games as a Neverending Turing Test – Jack Soslow
• (46:09) The Metaverse Goes Fashion Forward – Doug McCracken
• (59:24) Generative AI Advances Beyond “Text to Image” to Complex Workflows – Sarah Wang
• (1:12:23) Embracing Large Language Models and Maintaining Trust – Sumeet Singh

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In this special episode, we share never heard before footage from Steve Wozniak alongside his cofounder and best man, Alex Fielding. 

Listeners get an inside look into what drove Woz to building a computer, but also how Steve’s zest for life was applied beyond computers – from the rare opportunity to play Tetris on the side of a building or throw a concert across borders.

 

Full Privateer episode: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/new-the-data-highway-above-with-privateers-steve-wozniak-alex-fielding-and-dr-moriba-jah

Full Privateer episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZZbrwxOs0y4

 

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New year, new you! Right?

Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the reality is that we often resist change.

That’s why we’ve brought in someone who has studied how humans respond to and adapt to change – or sometimes how we fail to. That person is Jason Feifer – long-time editor in chief at Entrepreneur Magazine, host of two popular podcasts, and recent author of his book Build for Tomorrow. 

Today, Jason shares 6 specific frameworks around the very natural human responses to change, which he’s developed through interviewing and studying some of the most influential people in the world – past and present. We also play a fun game at the end, where Jason comments on current technologies encountering pushback, and assesses where they might fit into his framework.

 

Jason’s website: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/

Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyfeifer

Jason’s book Build for Tomorrow: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/book/

 

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In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, and more.

 

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/c7ScUDYSRYo

Subscribe to Bio Eats World: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bio-eats-world/id1529318900

 

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with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90

A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between technology, content, and distribution; as well as Bob’s journey — and that of various creators! — especially as the industry evolved from TV and cable to the advent of the internet/ web 1.0 to 2.0 to briefly touching on web3 and other emerging technologies. As well as topics top of mind for all company and community builders: from build vs. buy and the innovator’s dilemma, to managing creativity, decentralization, remote work, and much more.

 

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