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

And I think we tend to think that happiness is fixed.

But what if it's not?

You know, if you and I were doing jobs 100 years ago, like what would our jobs be?

I promise they'd be less cool than they are right now.

And maybe 100 years from now, they'll be that much cooler.

So I think that the thing that gets often missed, and this is why I'm a fan of Claire and others, is just like, how can this thing add texture to our human lives, even if they don't have economic consequences?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I think that we believe that people want to be more productive, but they don't.

I think more people want to spend time than save time.

There's a reason the biggest products in the world are kind of entertainment and social.

So we get at the heart of how do we sort of deliver the value to the consumer?

I think for most consumers, you know, sometimes I tease and I say it's like the Instagram AI user versus the XAI user.

The XAI user is like, you know, fearful of being outside of the permanent underclass, is really opinionated on GLM 5.3 versus Kimmy K3.

Like, they're just so pilled.

And then the Instagram person is like, oh, this is like a better Google search, kind of.

It's cool.

You don't get what all the hype is about.

So I think that a lot of the, and it's really a product design failure.

We have the capabilities to radically transform people's lives.

I mean, Lenny, in many ways, we spend 40 years building a technology that enables better spreadsheets, right?

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