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

So whether that's visiting, whether that's deciding you need to live here or hire people here, I think it's a very independent question for every founder.

But I do think if you are going on this journey, you want that expertise around you.

You know, which is part of why, you know, even for me, I'm on the VC side now, because I'd love to be able to help as many companies as I can navigate that incredible moment from

We kinda got something working to a really durable company and platform.

You

I don't think it's the best place in the world to start a company, but I think it's a very important place in the world to scale a company.

Because I think if you believe that you have a great idea and you figured out how to get this into the first set of people, but you want that expertise now to go, okay, how do I truly make this durable?

There's just so many people in and around the Bay Area that can help you do that.

But I don't know that that always means you have to live here full time.

I think it does mean that it helps to be a part of the ecosystem.

I also think if you are a B2B company or selling to other small companies, there's just so many here that it's an incredible place to to start with adoption.

But honestly, if you're building for consumers, a lot of what you're also building for is culture.

And I'm not sure that the SF tech

culture is 100% transferable to everywhere else either.

So it's not like you always want to start everything here.

You want to also make sure you really understand the culture of other cities around the world and other communities around the world to make sure that you're really being able to do something that will will affect mainstream consumers where they are.

So I also don't want to get it too much SF glasses.

You know,

I mean, you can't really pick a favorite, but in my career, I will tell you that I I had this period of time that I joined Twitter, late 2009.

And and so we kind of got to go through the two 2010.

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