Interview, Explained

In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.

~49 min

a16z Podcast·2026-10-05

Olivia Moore & Josh Elman on consumer AI's power-user game

Olivia Moore & Josh Elman· Partners, a16z consumer team

In a16z's seventh top-100 consumer AI report, Olivia Moore and Josh Elman show that consumer AI today is a concentrated, subscription-funded power-user market, and argue the next phase broadens it through agents that take action, ad and transaction business models, and products whose moat is accumulated context rather than the model.

AI CompanyAgentsBusiness StrategyLLM

~61 min

The a16z Show·2026-07-07

Seema Amble & Steven Sinofsky on why software isn't losing its head

Seema Amble & Steven Sinofsky· a16z Enterprise Partner & Board Partner

a16z's Seema Amble and Steven Sinofsky argue that 'headless' software doesn't kill the incumbents — because the value was never the UI but the codified business logic, exceptions, and institutional memory underneath, and agents change how you reach that value, not who has to own it.

AgentsBusiness StrategyAI Company