Travis Kalanick on Atoms: Manufacturing, Real Estate, Logistics as Physical World's Compute
a16z · x · 2026-08-14
a16z released a fireside chat with Travis Kalanick about his new company Atoms, an industrial AI company that sees manufacturing, real estate, and logistics as the CPU, storage, and network of the physical world. Kalanick says he's been working hard all along, just not talking about it. This is Ben Horowitz's largest check ever. Topics include Uber history, why he didn't buy Lyft, and his vision for computing the physical world.
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