Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Anish Acharya, a general partner at A16Z and former founder, challenges the pervasive fear that falling behind on AI will relegate people to a permanent underclass. He argues instead for optimism: AI is democratizing ambition, amplifying human agency, and enabling new forms of creativity
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