a16z GP Anish Acharya: Ship Your Bad Ideas First to Discover the Good Ones
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-07
a16z General Partner Anish Acharya argues you should ship the ideas that embarrass you: low stakes make people worse, not safer. People are at their best when the stakes are high and at their worst when they're low. Five years ago was a low-stakes era, and now it's not just Elon climbing the ambition ladder — you can't find the good idea without posting the bad one first.
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