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 it's much more fulfilling to work on someone else's good idea than your own bad idea.

So I think even things like that are going to lead to a lot more organizational health than we've had in the past.

Not to mention the fact that the idea that ends up winning doesn't have to be the one that's came up with by the person who can sell it best to an executive.

It just gets tried and the best idea wins.

Yeah, I think that's right.

And I think that those are going to be the rate limiting factors because you can only do one steak dinner a night.

I guess you could do a steak lunch.

But, you know, to some extent, there's going to be these rate limiting factors in every system.

I think a useful way to think about it is anytime the model's making a mistake or doing something you wouldn't do, what do you know that it doesn't know?

And there's a really interesting example I heard from Ale at Kavak.

He's probably the most sophisticated thinker on this stuff that I get to hang out with, where he said anytime they have an agent per customer, they sell used cars online.

And when the agent gets stuck, it actually calls a human.

And the human will coach the agent through.

Now, the magic of that is not only does it unblock the agent, but of course the agent then captures all the traces and learns from it.

Like that's a really interesting mental model.

It's either a knowledge gap or a data gap that you have to give the agent.

And the next time it shouldn't have to call you.

That's right.

And then hopefully, a lot of your day to day work, you know, when you come up with a new idea that works, the kind of implications of that idea, if it's a product, you know, there's marketing work, there's sales work, there's product marketing, there's communication, there's legal, all of that should be largely handled for you.

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