Elena Burger

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274 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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The a16z Show · Is Software Losing Its Head? · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Is this maybe more of a branding exercise?

And kind of like what have we even seen in the past couple months since we've been able to kind of observe what changes have really happened?

Yeah, yeah.

And from my understanding, it's also, I mean, it could also apply to something as simple as a chatbot.

You know, it's not necessarily just an API or an MCP server.

You could be, you know, Salesforce acquired Slack a couple of years ago, and it could be something as simple as you sort of interacting with a CRM via a chatbot.

Yeah.

And Stephen, do you have anything to add here just on the kind of like definitional territory that we're covering right now or kind of this discussion?

Yeah, I think this is actually a good lead up into a follow up question, which is historically what has made software sticky and how are agents starting to disrupt that?

And I leave that to either of you to answer.

Maybe you guys can both kind of debate about that.

Yeah.

You even talk about this in your piece, Simo, where there's sort of all of these like invisible, tacit sort of understandings about how to use different products or things that are embedded both within the software, but also within the people using them where it's just like it does become hard after a while to to extricate yourself from from whatever ecosystem you happen to be in.

And in fact, Stephen, I think you've even, you know, said the SaaSpocalypse is overblown.

You've wrote an essay called The Death of Software.

Nah.

Where you, you know, emphatically sort of rejected this idea.

So maybe if you want to maybe just recount that piece a little bit for us.

So like to both of your points earlier, like.

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