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

I might be in a quiet place.

I might not want other people to hear me and and I do wanna express something.

And I think voice isn't always the best use if I wanna refine my thoughts a little bit before I send them over.

to an agent or to another person.

It's

We're doing a lot less with it today than we should be, and I'm really excited for this massive wave.

partner.

Oh, interesting.

Yes.

And with a lot of these new duplex modes and what some of the new technology is doing, the AIs can now let you do a lot of role playing and sort of preview conversations that you're having before you go have them and help you truly refine your thoughts.

I mean, I find I find voice conversations when I'm in the car, I love using voice to just go back and forth with something because I have to otherwise be focused on the road.

But when I'm sitting on my couch, I don't often want to

talk to my phone or my computer, I often there do just like typing and reading and scrolling.

So it's not gonna be a matter of being able to go back and forth very smoothly with all these modalities.

No, that's great.

And and I mean, Reed's, you know, one of the most incredible founders and thought leaders of our of our time.

And

One of the fun things I've seen him doing is building REAT AI, which is actually not only can you just interact with ChatGPT as aspiring partner, but but actually building something that it that has ingested and learned about him and creating sort of a double for him.

Now it's still very different than having the real live person and interacting in the moment, but it's an incredible proxy to understand how he thinks, how he might go about certain situations, to test things and to get really

you know, instead of just reading his writings or watching previous podcasts, it's an incredible way to synthesize it to at least see how how that AI may apply things to new situations.

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