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Ben Horowitz

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The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

So it's not that hard to build all those global supply chain relationships.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And then you can't sell to any significant company that travels worldwide if you don't have all of them because like I need to be able to travel everywhere.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Then you've got to integrate with whatever they're doing for their credit, other systems in their company.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Then the channel to sell it,

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

you're actually selling to somebody called the travel manager, which, by the way, like, Anthropic is, like, the chance that Anthropic would build a channel to sell to the travel manager, like, there's gold bricks everywhere.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

They're not going to pick up a silver brick.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, they're just not going to do it.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, I can tell you, Ange can tell you, like, that's the last fucking thing on their mind.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

In fact, they've got an open rec now to hire a travel manager at Anthropic to manage the Navon relationship.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Nonetheless, Navon lost two-thirds of its value in the SaaSpocalypse, and it's, you know, accelerated revenue since then.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

It's, you know, I think, I mean, it's, I got to be careful because it's a public company and so forth.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

But, like, I think they'll be fine for a very long time.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

So, you know, it's just one of those things where, and there's a saying on Wall Street, when the paddy wagon backs up to the house of ill repute,

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

which is, by the way, for those of you too young to know what that is, that's a whorehouse.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Everybody goes to jail, you know, not just the people who are committing crimes.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And so in the saspocalypse, everybody's in jail, whether or not they should be in jail.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

So, like, just be aware of that.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Time.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

So I think what's happened, so if you look at the Navant stock, it was at like $25.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

It went to $8.