A company I work with went from $0 -> $60M in 3 months - will hit $100M run-rate this month Fastest growing company I’ve ever seen. I don’t think people have fully grasped data as a first class citizen alongside compute and algorithms They are selling frontier data to AI labs and model developers. DMs open if you would like to chat with them

It was great having @qasar speak to the last a16z @speedrun batch about his learnings from building multiple successful startups - and most recently Applied Intuition into a $15B company Next batch starts tomorrow

Proactive AI Agents Today’s AI products are reactive. You give the model a prompt, it responds with an answer. These are useful, but I’m excited about products that take this further and shift the paradigm from “ask → answer” to “observe → act." These agents will continuously monitor context in the background across all of your connected tools and data, predict what matters, and take action before being asked to do so – much like a human does. So instead of you prompting the model, the model will start prompting you. Examples here could include agents that remind you about tasks you forgot to complete, resolve customer issues before support tickets are filed, or debug and ship code fixes automatically. This shift represents a new paradigm where AI products behave more like humans and less like tools. We’re already starting to see this dynamic with products like OpenClaw, Poke, and more - and we’ve only scratched the surface of capabilities here. We’re accepting applications for the next cohort of @a16z @speedrun – If you’re building the next generation of AI products, apply online.