This puts so well into words the conversation I’ve had dozens of times in the last year. (1) Incumbents are positioned to succeed in AI broadly much more than startups because brand, data, distribution offer advantage (2) The SaaS 1.0 playbook is uniquely bad for AI because A…↗

Marc Andreessen has grown a16z from their first fund of $300M in 2009 to over $25B+ in AUM as of 2022. His framework for understanding any business is simple. It comes down to unpacking what he calls "the onion theory of risk." Here's what he means...↗