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

I love products.

For me, it's easier to think of a new feature to add to my DJ streaming app or my sort of Google Reader for X that I use than it is to kind of find a part of my life to automate.

But you're right, there's some fun examples.

I posted about one a few weeks ago where I had my laptop transcribe everything that was happening in the kitchen.

And then it would award or detract screen time from my son's iPad, depending on whether he was being good or bad.

So it was like a fun little social experiment.

It also had a fun outcome, which is that he recorded a video of himself saying, I love you, dad, over and over and put it next to the mic.

To hack the metrics.

So yes, anything becomes a measure.

It's no longer useful.

But it was just a cool little social experiment.

I think those things are super fun.

he saying things that are positive

negative and anti-social?

you know, saying I love you is very pro-social.

Isn't that so?

And this is what I mean, you know, man, like I think we spent a lot of the time on the show so far, really like intriguing, talking about productivity, job loss, kind of all these like heady, important topics with a capital I. But what you just described, how often you laugh, like that's not a startup.

That's probably not an economically consequential idea, but it is for like the quality of our life.

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