the results from this week's @a16z build survey are in! here's a glimpse... your dream angel investors: - @eladgil - @pmarca - @elonmusk - @chamath - @saranormous - @danielgross people you think will start the next big co: - @PhilipLakin - Dir of AI Transformation at Zapier, prev Co-founder/CEO of NoCodeOps - @kalinowski007 - Hardware & Physical AI leader; prev OpenAI, Meta, Oculus VR, Apple, Stanford - Rob Anderson - Chief of Staff at Atomic Machines; prev SpaceX, Miso Robotics, Caltech - Vaishali Parekh - PM at Meta, prev Pinterest - Jeffrey Wang - Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI; prev Harvard Teaching Fellow companies you'd join if you quit your job tomorrow (skipping the classics): - @anduriltech - @probookai - @fal - @DecagonAI - @blueorigin the rest of the results are hidden - only shared with people who filled out the survey link in thread to get a head start on next week's survey!

.@travisk just raised $1.7B for atoms, led by @a16z - and now he's hiring hundreds of people. after 8 years in stealth, Travis is "back" and looking for builders who want to solve hard problems and digitize the physical world. here's a glimpse into our podcast interview with him, where he talks about what he's looking for in new team-members... and a list of roles that are open right now! link in thread.

stoked to introduce our NEWEST cohort of @a16z new media fellows! 🔥 (we're only running 2 cohorts per year, so this is it for 2026) featuring @Noahpinion @ChrisPainterYup @alypavs @rohanrkumar @cdngdev @XRarchitect @Madisonkanna @Dani_Meist @adelwu_ @ccatalini @anuatluru @AustinJSchu & many more the fellowship kicks off next week and will run through the summer! link in thread to sign up to stay in the loop on our next program 🙌 cc @eriktorenberg @humford @david__booth @liangsays

we're hiring right now for the @a16z new media team - and if you're interested, we want to meet you IRL! we're hosting a talent speed-dating event at our sf office. quick interviews, real conversations, meet the people you’d actually be working with. we'll also have some a16z swag 😁 we have open roles right now across portfolio services, operations, social, podcast, community, video, & ecosystem. if you’re an operator-builder who thrives in ambiguity and likes shipping things that didn't exist before... we want to meet you. apply to join the event here!

We're hiring a Portfolio Services Lead on our team at @a16z! 🙌 You'll get to partner with the world's best startups & founders to help them leverage new media to accelerate their growth. We're looking for someone who: - Thrives on building relationships and has a natural bent toward client success - Can move really fast, while also staying hyper-organized - Gets the power of new media (storytelling, video, marketing, comms) and is excited to harness it to help startups tell their stories and take over the timeline You'll be working closely with @eriktorenberg @tdoggyholhol @humford @repkarinabao & me. This is a really important hire for us - so we're structuring this as a "work trial" where you'll start by spending 1-3 months with us on a paid FT contract. Through this, you'll figure out if we're a fit for you - and we'll do the same for us! Link in comments.