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 went back home last summer.

Like people's lives haven't changed that much.

So if nothing else, the sort of slow rate of economic diffusion will catch it.

I think the other thing that's under-discussed, Lenny, is how many problems are truly intelligence-bound?

If you had a data center of PhDs working at FedEx or Domino's Pizza, are they going to be exponentially dominating supply chain and pizzas?

I don't think so.

So I think we might be overestimating how many problems are intelligence-bound versus bound by other things.

I mean, I have so many thoughts on this.

I don't think we give the average employee enough credit.

I think we have this abstraction of a white collar employee.

You know, the white collar manager, the abstraction is like some Dilbert-esque manager who's just shuffling paper all day long.

You know, it is abstraction of consumers that they're sort of these low agency NBCs.

Of course, that would never apply to us or our friends.

You know, we have this abstraction that everybody else's job is super automatable by AI, but of course ours is not.

So I think when you actually get into the details, a lot of people are actually excited to, you know, better themselves, get more leverage.

And you see this with, of course, sophisticated companies like Google, but even a company like Kavok,

where they sell used cars in Mexico, they've got this concept of a Jedi Academy where they're teaching everybody at the company, including the mechanics, how to use the new tools and technologies.

And kind of at the end of the six-week course, they ship a cutting-edge in-production agent.

So I actually think that more people are embracing the technology than we sort of like to discuss.

big change is going to be using AI versus reorganizing your entire company around AI.

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