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American Dynamism Summit 2026: Securing the Next 250 Years

Accelerating the founders powering our national interest, security, and prosperity for the next 250 years.

Mar 3 • David Ulevitch

Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software

But the moats that built the great software companies aren't going anywhere

Mar 2 • Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez

Charts of the Week: DExit . . . real or feigned?

Jevon-it; Capex in context; Kalshi Forecasting the Fed Funds Rate; Delayed Onset of Adulthood

Feb 27 • a16z New Media

New Media Fellowship: apply for the 2nd cohort!

This next fellowship will kick off in April 2026 for a new group of 65 fellows

Mar 6 • Katie Kirsch, Erik Torenberg, Brent Liang, and Henry Williams

Jared Isaacman: Introducing NASA Force

From the American Dynamism 2026 Summit

Mar 5 • a16z

America

Jared Isaacman: Introducing NASA Force

From the American Dynamism 2026 Summit

Mar 5 • a16z

Emil Michael's "Holy Cow" moment with AI vendors

From the American Dynamism 2026 Summit

Mar 4 • a16z

American Dynamism Summit 2026: Securing the Next 250 Years

Accelerating the founders powering our national interest, security, and prosperity for the next 250 years.

Mar 3 • David Ulevitch

Investing in Chariot Defense

a16z leads Chariot Defense's Series A

Feb 25 • Erin Price-Wright and Ryan McEntush

Technology

Investing in Lio

a16z leads Lio's $30M Series A

Mar 5 • Seema Amble, James da Costa, Eric, and Brian Roberts

Investing in Ease

a16z leads Ease's $41M Series A

Mar 2 • Daisy Wolf, Anish A, and Eva Steinman

Investing in QuiverAI

a16z leads QuiverAI's Seed round

Feb 25 • Yoko Li, Guido Appenzeller, and Martin Casado

I Built TetrisBench, Where LLMs Compete at Playing Tetris

Here’s What I Found

Feb 23 • Yoko Li

Opinion

Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software

But the moats that built the great software companies aren't going anywhere

Mar 2 • Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez

Infinite Healthcare

What’s It Worth?

Feb 26 • Jay Rughani, Jane Rhee, and Julie Yoo

Humans Are for Ideas, AI Is for Execution

Every time it needs an idea, it comes back to me.

Feb 25 • Olivia Moore

In Defense of Vertical Software

The last mile is the entire problem

Feb 19 • George Sivulka

Culture

New Media Fellowship: apply for the 2nd cohort!

This next fellowship will kick off in April 2026 for a new group of 65 fellows

Mar 6 • Katie Kirsch, Erik Torenberg, Brent Liang, and Henry Williams

Infinite Jest belongs in the Techno-Optimist Canon

A16Z Culture's most controversial book recommendation so far

Feb 25 • Alex Danco

"I'm out, who's with me?": 'Exit' as an organizing idea

A guest post for a16z Culture

Feb 11 • Ross Calvin

Gift Culture and the Intelligence Threshold

We've practiced for this AI rite of passage our entire lives

Feb 4 • Alex Danco

Charts

Charts of the Week: DExit . . . real or feigned?

Jevon-it; Capex in context; Kalshi Forecasting the Fed Funds Rate; Delayed Onset of Adulthood

Feb 27 • a16z New Media

Still increasing the GDP of the internet

Highlights from Stripe's 2025 Annual Letter

Feb 24 • Alex Immerman, Santiago Rodriguez, and David George

Charts of the Week: Vertical SaaS, Rawr!

LLM retention and usage; Open Source Rising; Second-order effects of MoltBot; Of Capex, R&D, and productivity

Feb 20 • a16z New Media

Charts of the Week: Customer Service Reckoning

Industrials valuation pop; SF is the hub; Capex; White collar sitters

Feb 13 • a16z New Media

About Us

The Power Brokers

A guest special by Packy McCormick of Not Boring

Jan 9 • Packy McCormick

We raised $15B. Why?

What's next up for a16z

Jan 9 • Ben Horowitz

Introducing a16z Build

A dinner series and community for experienced idea-stage founders, technologists, and operators

Dec 12, 2025 • David Booth, Katie Kirsch, and Erik Torenberg

What is New Media?

An important part of a16z’s origin story, which you may already know, is that we were founded by Marc & Ben to be “CAA for the tech industry.” When…

Nov 6, 2025 • Alex Danco, Brent Liang, Henry Williams, and Erik Torenberg

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