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Anish Acharya

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2269 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

obvious in a way that it was too late.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Right.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Even OpenClaw, right, which was originally called Quadbot, I think.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Quadbot, yeah.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Yeah, Quadbot.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

So even though there's been a thousand forks of it, it's literally open source, OpenClaw itself still dominates conversation.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Right?

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

We're not talking about the 10 OpenClaws that have equal market share.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

We're talking about OpenClaws.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

So there are these compounding effects that are sometimes less intellectually satisfying than network effects, software modes, whatever.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

The thing I worry the most about with consumer software is that the costs are too high to have a free model, really for very long.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

I was talking to Signal, who's launching a product in the next couple of weeks, a consumer product, and he was saying, hey, dude, I need to raise like $25 million if I want to have 100,000 mouths.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

And by the way, the money will go quickly.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

So the fact that you don't have this sort of zero marginal cost of distribution benefit, which has really advantaged consumer founders in the past, I think is a major drag on the ability of consumer founders to scale things to a lot of people.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

We're not in all of them, but we're in Mistral, we're in OpenAI.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Anthropic or no?

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

We're not in Anthropic.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Okay.

The a16z Show
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show

Well, I think it's easy to over-rotate on some of the conversations on X. If you sort of zoom out and you look at OpenAI, first of all, they've got, I don't know, 950 million weekly actives.