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Anish Acharya

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2269 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And if you look at any of the other markets like creative tools, they're going to specialize in Fragment in their own direction.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

I don't think it looks like Uber and Lyft.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

I don't think it looks like Uber and Lyft.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

I think Uber and Lyft are, to my mind, the most extreme examples of pure substitutes, and a lot of the price has been competed away.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

I think Uber and Lyft are, to my mind, the most extreme examples of pure substitutes, and a lot of the price has been competed away.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

You look at cloud, you have this oligopoly where they all actually have pretty reasonable margins.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

You look at cloud, you have this oligopoly where they all actually have pretty reasonable margins.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And you can squint and say, of course they have their specializations, but they're roughly substitutes and yet they've all done well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And you can squint and say, of course they have their specializations, but they're roughly substitutes and yet they've all done well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

The foundation model companies look a little bit like that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

The foundation model companies look a little bit like that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And I think in the apps layer, you're just going to have people that want to consume the code they generate through a rich IDE and those that want to be closer to the metal.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And I think in the apps layer, you're just going to have people that want to consume the code they generate through a rich IDE and those that want to be closer to the metal.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And that's probably closer to AWS, Google Cloud than it is Uberlift.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And that's probably closer to AWS, Google Cloud than it is Uberlift.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

When you think about a firm that's organized the way we are, which is we actually do stuff for our companies, it becomes very difficult to invest in directly competing companies because then you've got the same resources, the same sort of Fortune 500 buyer, the same engineer that both companies want to hire.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

When you think about a firm that's organized the way we are, which is we actually do stuff for our companies, it becomes very difficult to invest in directly competing companies because then you've got the same resources, the same sort of Fortune 500 buyer, the same engineer that both companies want to hire.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And I just like, I don't think we can run our business by investing in directly competing companies.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

And I just like, I don't think we can run our business by investing in directly competing companies.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI | Do Margins Matter Anymore | Is Triple, Triple, Double, Double Dead Today? | Who Wins the Dev Market: Cursor or Claude Code | Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble with Anish Acharya @ a16z

Now, with that said, we're in a part of the market where companies are diverging very rapidly.