New essay:
Every marketing channel sucks right now
(full thing on my newsletter, just subscribe via link in bio)
These days I’m spending a lot of my time with very early stage startups (yes, as part of the program at a16z to invest up to $1M into each, called a16z speedrun --
andrew chenx.comNew essay: Every marketing channel sucks right now (full thing on my newsletter, just subscribe via link in bio) These days I’m spending a lot of my time with very early stage startups (yes, as part of the program at a16z to invest up to $1M into each, called a16z speedrun --
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, engineers were gods. A "10x engineer" could make or break a startup.
Now, things have changed.
I studied computer science at school so it kinda pains me to say this but marketers are the new engineers.
Attention is the new... See more
WHY INVESTORS DON'T FUND AI STARTUPS
you might know A16Z is running a seed-stage startup accelerator called SPEEDRUN where we're funding 40+ companies in the next 2 months with $750k per company. (apply here: https://t.co/lExlSgiixi). As part of running this accelerator, we get thousands of new startup ideas sent to us.... See more
andrew chenx.comDo not trust millenials to run your brand.
Their vision of the way the internet works was informed by the Web 2.0 Facebook ca. 2011 Instagram vintage filters era and their priors have not been updated since.
The internet is no longer deterministic. It's algorithm-driven, and not even among... See more
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