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 it is early days.

But what's held us back is, I think, three things.

One is that the models have been expensive.

So if you want to do a kind of free-to-use product, that hasn't been easy.

The second is that we've kind of had an interface problem.

Like chat makes sense if you're the highest agency person in the world, which is Elon and Sam.

But for the average consumer, like their ideal interface is TikTok.

So we need to find something between chat and TikTok.

And then the fact that the technology has been so much more focused on productivity than things like, you know, human connection and entertainment.

I think all those things are kind of up for grabs.

Like the open weight models mean things are way cheaper.

I think that we're starting to have conversations about things like loop make me happier.

And I think that founders like Eugenia, who you should have on the show, she's tremendous, are thinking really ambitiously about user interfaces.

Brian Chesky from Airbnb, I think he started a foundation lab.

focused on next-gen user interfaces.

So I think all those problems will get solved or they're at least in a better position to be solved than they were two years ago.

One, I think it's a potential for it to be a sort of emotional, spiritual interface on which we can kind of get leverage and explore aspects of ourselves that have been really buried.

If you look at the kind of effect of the industrial revolution, it's that there are these scale advantages which are insurmountable.

And as much as obviously I'm very pro-capitalism and I love the economy that we live in, I think that centralization, it sort of discourages the individual in some ways and it maybe detracts from their identity.

So I think one of the really magical things is this is a technology that really amplifies our identity, our agency.

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