Josh Elman

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677 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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The a16z Show · What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

But I do think we're going to see things about what are people creating.

Where can I go co experience things with people?

Now, one of the amazing things with Discord was it was one of the rare places you could really easily game and talk at the same time.

And it was actually a new behavior that brought people together that then became a place people stayed and chatted.

And so I think about what are those things that are those new behaviors that bring us together that then once we're together, now we'll also stay and do other things.

We we also talk a lot about AI, and right now a lot of AI is very single.

Yeah.

I interact with the AI to help it do things in my life, but I don't yet have it plugged into our group and understanding our group nuances.

And when I have it join a group, it's not helping me do other things with the same group of people.

You know, group chats have become such a popular form of social media.

Maybe that is in some ways, the new network that we aren't thinking about that we really have developed over the past few years.

I have way more local group chats than I probably had 10 years.

Yeah.

But when we bring AI into some of those group chats, does that create a whole new pattern where we're now interacting?

And even more, what if the AI is interacting our behalf to bring us together?

And it's like, hey, I'm talking to it, you're talking to it, they're talking to each other.

Now when we have a conversation, we're much more informed.

I think we're just at the cusp of many of these ideas, starting to get explored and have people trying them.

And yeah, I'm I'm really optimistic in this wave, a few of these will catch.

I like it about that, okay.

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