a16z's Anish Acharya: Companies are becoming a series of loops as agents take over workflows
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-09-12
a16z General Partner Anish Acharya on Lenny's Podcast argues companies are becoming "a series of loops": agents increasingly run workflows across engineering, sales, marketing, and support, while humans supply judgment and ideas to escape local maxima.
- Fears of an AI-driven "permanent underclass" may be misplaced; the opportunity is expanding what people can build, not replacing them.
- Consumer AI should focus less on productivity and more on richer living.
- Moats are often discovered, not designed; develop intuition for different models.
- His top advice for keeping up with AI: make more things.
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