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

It actually has a point of view.

And so I do think that that while everything feels like there's eminently clonable things.

the people who build these durable platforms are finding their way to really connect with their customers and connect with their networks in a way that is is really rich and much better.

And and the hardest part is all of us in the early days is teasing out, you know, which are which.

I've gotta think more if that's true.

I mean, a company like Lovable came out of Sweden, for example, that's just an incredible company.

You know, all the things Eleven Lab does, you know, didn't start here in in San Francisco.

So I don't think it's true that that the that

The best ones started here musically, for example, started actually as a team in China.

They had spent some time in the United States, but they were actually a team in China that was learning.

And there's so much innovation happening in the Chinese ecosystem, for example.

Um, some of those lessons, you know, we talked about whatnot earlier, you know, was sort of inspired by some of the original growth of live shopping in China.

So I do think we're at this wonderful place in the world where more and more innovation is happening everywhere.

What's really unique.

Unique though about the Bay Area is how many people here, maybe not just the founders with that idea, but the next wave of people have truly come and been able to help scale and find those companies and find those paths to independence and find those paths to network effects.

And we have so many people in the Bay Area that have been part of some or many of these journeys.

I mean, I myself live here and I've gotten to be a part of so many different companies that have made this journey from something that

was a really cool idea to a really durable platform.

I think to get that acceleration can happen anywhere, but you can really get the right expertise even faster.

when you're interacting with people from the Bay Area.

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