Our team at @a16z spends all day studying the future of consumer AI. We just dropped an hour-long podcast with our learnings so far and what we hope to see from startups. Takeaways, clips, and link 👇 https://t.co/3dAJcACFvv

I am extremely bullish on consumer AI. I wrote a bit about how the most important consumer companies tend to cluster around a technical unlock -- 1994-1998, 2003-2007, 2008-2012 -- and what kinds of consumer opportunities I'm most interested in. https://t.co/EOwZEJtBzQ

The tech industry currently stands at a crossroads. At the twilight of social media, adtech, and crypto bull markets (bubbles?), tech workers and consumers are simultaneously exhausted by tech and starving for more. Shiny trends like Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality stand on the sidelines ready to transform latent frustrations into... See more

But again, tech will change everything, but once the dust has settled the questions that matter will mostly be retail questions, not tech questions. What’s the product, how do you know about it and how do you get it? Those are retail, brand and marketing questions.