Josh Elman

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

Josh Elman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

Eat better or indulge yourself sometimes.

You know, having a partner who who understands your goals and sometimes gives you encouragement and sometimes gives you the tough love that you need.

I mean, that's what we look for.

I mean, I love my mother and she's great at doing both of those.

Sometimes being my biggest cheerleader, sometimes being my biggest critic.

And it would be amazing to have something else in my life that is helping me do that.

I love my mother.

She gives me tough love.

And encouragement.

But I don't talk about everything and I don't talk about everything every day.

And there are times where I would love somebody who kind of has the day to day understanding that gives me some of that too.

And even, you know, if I haven't called my mom in in a week, reminds me to do that.

Although I'm usually pretty good.

Super fascinating.

have.

And I think it's gonna be piece by piece.

I'm a big believer that if you want to become a very big company, you can't start by trying to do everything, but you have to start by doing a few things really, really well and earn the right to do more.

You know, again, I I keep coming back to to Discord, which earned the right to be the place that we played games and that we had a live chat during games.

And as it earned that right so well, it became a place we chatted more.

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