Anish Acharya

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8,262 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 12 Sep

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The a16z Show · Why Companies Are Becoming a Series of Loops | Anish Acharya on Lenny’s Podcast · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

So yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.

I'm not sure.

I mean, I think for a verifiability is a good question because I think for like a drug development company, you have infinite upside.

It is verifiable.

But closing the books is also a verifiable problem, which has limited upside.

I think the question is really how much upside is there and how hard is it to calculate it?

Like here's a nuance.

Customer support, a customer may call in and report a bug.

That bug may actually be the first breadcrumb to a thing that changes our entire organization.

And if the CEO was on that call or the smartest person, they could follow the trail.

But if we actually have this quote unquote mid IQ generalist, then not.

That actually makes the case for as a basket of problems always use frontier intelligence.

And I can, of course, make the case for the mid IQ basket as well, which is simply that we've crossed an intelligence threshold for almost every economically useful problem.

And anything beyond that threshold is simply waste.

You're right, because it's sort of like, this thing is so crazy.

You know, this is AGI.

And then a day later, it's like the old thing that you throw in the dustbin.

Yes, well, as you know, the secret of every sommelier is 10,000 hours or maybe 10,000 bottles.

So I think that the secret of being a model sommelier is just using them all.

Drinking a lot.

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