A16Z

Charts of the Week: Are Semis Cheap?

Aspiring for Intelligence | Vivek Ramaswami & Sabrina Wu

Open Weights, Many Winners

Sammy Abdullah

Key Questions to Ask a VP of Sales Hire

Newcomer | Eric Newcomer

High-Stakes Battle Over China Policy & Open Source AI Pits LLM Giants Against Their Customers

Saastr

We Peaked at 30 AI Agents. Now We’re Coming Back Down to 20. Here’s What Consolidation Actually Looks Like. The Agents #011 Live!

Saastr

You Should Be Collecting At Least 100% Of Your MRR Each Month in Cash. Ideally, 110%+.

Not Boring | Packy McCormick

Weekly Dose of Optimism #203

Clouded Judgement | Jamin Ball

Clouded Judgement 7.24.26 - The World Isn’t Zero Sum

Investing in AI | Rob May

Coherent: The Optical Plumber Of The AI Buildout

First Round Review

How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)

Alex Oppenheimer

Design the Wave. Don’t Just Ride it.

A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson

Investing in the Boom Times

Sequoia

America’s Open-Model Paradox

Michael Dempsey

Beyond Tech’s Power: On Status, Sacrifice, and the Search for Legitimacy

Michael Dempsey

Power, Status, and Legitimacy in Tech

Hunter Walk

I’ve Changed My Mind.

Hunter Walk

I’ve Changed My Mind. Early Stage Venture Funds of $100 Million or Less Should Hold Almost No Reserves for Follow-On.

Newcomer | Eric Newcomer

SCOOP: Fundraising Documents Reveal IVP Quietly Raising $1.8 Billion, Boasting 31.1% Net IRR Since Firm's Inception

Saanya Ojha

Beat, Build, Bleed

Brian Sugar

The Corner Table at The Swiss Hotel

Veridical

ServiceTitan Waited 10 Years. Procore Waited 21. The Next Vertical AI Winners Won't Wait at All.

A16Z

How to Win the Largest Market in AI

Saastr

5 Interesting Learnings from Stripe at $6.8 Billion in Revenue: 33% Growth, 47% Free Cash Flow Margins, and a $53B Bid for PayPal

Turner Novak

🎧🍌 Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street

Sequoia

Partnering with Etched: Building the Inference Machine