Alex Rampell

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2,118 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

It's not as fast a risk.

So I guess if you were, I mean, Loud Cloud's around today, you're the CEO, and again, bad example.

Sorry to give you- That would be very scary.

I know, I know.

Yeah, exactly.

You would be very well positioned.

But I guess, what is it that a CEO should do potentially differently?

I mean, obviously, move faster, cut faster, be more efficient, throw money at the, like all these things that we've talked about, but it's like, shit, if I go public and I get disrupted, then I have this terrible life of I'm going to be a penny stock, right?

If I just wait, there's this chance that I get eviscerated.

And this kind of like road killer success equation is kind of scary, right?

I mean, it's always scary, but you would have time.

And now it feels like you don't.

Yeah.

Well, maybe let's talk about venture capital.

Well, that's the thing.

It's like, there are some things that really are features.

And before it would take a long time to build a feature.

So you might as well, you know, it's comparative advantage, David Ricardo.

I could weld my own steel, I could grow my own food, but I'm just going to not do that because I can do things that actually produce more economic value for me.

But now it's just becoming not that hard to go create features, but features are not products are not companies.

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