Thrilled to be partnering with @MoOueida and the team at @StitchHQ to build modern AI native infrastructure for financial institutions across the GCC and beyond. Also proud that this is @a16z’s first investment in KSA.

Thrilled to have @lloydblankfein join me on the @a16z podcast. Lloyd is arguably one of the most effective and resilient leaders Wall Street has ever produced. Having joined @GoldmanSachs in 1981 and rising to Chairman & CEO from 2006–2018, he skillfully guided the firm through the 2008 financial crisis—transforming it into a bank holding company and positioning it as a dominant global powerhouse while many competitors faltered. This was a particularly fun and wide ranging conversation as Lloyd shares his story of growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, getting into Harvard, joining Goldman via acquisition of J.Aron and rising through the organization as a creative trader and risk manager. We touch on the opportunities and risks he sees in AI and what young people should do to build a successful career. Hope you enjoy this conversation with Lloyd!

Think there’s so much discussion around Anthropic vs. startups, but think much more interesting discussion should be around market expansion enabled by AI across the board. Sure there’s going to be some losers but the big picture is very promising and not zero sum at all

Tesla Vision allows us to deploy airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier if your Tesla detects an unavoidable collision This can be the difference between serious injury & walking away from a crash

Life update: today is my last day at @insightpartners Hard to overstate what these years have meant to me. The gift Insight gave me is agency - the freedom to explore, build, and break things. I got to grow as an investor and build agentic systems at the same time, in the same place - that combination is rare. Feel lucky to be doing this work in a moment like this - a sci-fi era where computers can talk back, think with us, build with us. What a time! Matt, Max, Byron, Alessandro, Max, Hugues - thank you for betting on me, taking me under your wing, and shaping how I think. You are the firm. To the founders I've worked with: you are the most relentless, optimistic, brilliant people I know. Thank you for letting me into your stories. Building is a long game - I'm in it with you. Arrivederci, Insight!! What's next: more soon 🙌

Tony James is arguably the best investment firm builder on the planet. Having scaled DLJ to the largest alts platform in the world when it sold to Credit Suisse, and again with Blackstone from $14B to nearly $1T in AUM. Along the way he just happened to lead the Series A into Costco (and Starbucks!) in the 1980s (and has been on the board ever since). What is equally striking to Tony's success is the incredible impact and legacy he's had on the people he's worked with over the years. Some of the most successful people in finance credit their careers to Tony's mentorship / guidance. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

We have been testing GPT 5.5 on the hardest spreadsheet tasks in the world (100k-1M+ cell complex models). It is the Pareto frontier for spreadsheets -- SOTA accuracy, the fastest and the most efficient public model across effort levels. OAI really cooked here

Welcome to Pillar - your Agentic Global Risk Management department. Hedge your commodities risk in real-time, all in one platform. If you are a manufacturer exposed to commodity risk, couldn’t be a better time to check them out. Congratulations to @harshavramesh and his incredible team!! 🚀

Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale. It pairs an agent harness tuned for performance with production infrastructure, so you can go from prototype to launch in days. Now in public beta on the Claude Platform.