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 a great example of this is if you look at the diffusion of electricity as a technology, you know, it took 40 years for us to get from the inception of electricity to reorganizing factories.

And that means like burning the buildings down and starting from scratch versus taking what was previously coal and simply swapping it with electricity.

So I do think that like the most ambitious companies are rethinking everything around the models and those that are a little less ambitious or perhaps a little earlier are thinking more about how do we give people in existing orgs, existing job functions, access to the technology.

I think so, man.

I mean, I think if you even just think of the kind of incentives for the CEO and executives, you know, Sundar running Google, he doesn't want to run a more efficient $4 trillion company.

He wants to build a $40 trillion company.

So anytime you have an economically productive unit, it's rational to kind of, especially if it gets more productive, to maintain that sort of presence in your organization.

And then I don't know what you hear, but anecdotally, I talked to a good friend who's an executive at Google and I said, hey, have you laid anyone off?

And he said,

No, we didn't.

What we instead do is now rip through our roadmap.

So two years of roadmap happens in three months.

And we're actually, our hardest problem is knowing what to add to the roadmap, which by the way is like every PM's fantasy.

You know, how much emotion has been drained on prioritization conversations between you and I.

So yeah, I actually think that people shouldn't be as stressed and I think they should feel really empowered.

And by the way, the best way to do it is just to ship stuff.

I mean, Claire is my muse.

She's so awesome because

always shipping.

Yes, Clairvaux.

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