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Andreessen Horowitz Makes a $3 Billion Bet Against the AI Bubble

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Andreessen Horowitz Makes a $3 Billion Bet Against the AI Bubble Photographer: Manuel Orbegozo/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- An artificial intelligence startup that helps developers write and debug code is now worth nearly as much as United Airlines…
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  • a16z invests much before crazy valuations typically

    80% confidence

  • People joke that she works Martin really hard

    80% confidence

  • Fire drills and battles at startups is what she loves about startups

    80% confidence

  • He recruited Matt Bornstein by saying to come win deals instead of losing deals

    80% confidence

  • A lot of venture capitalists were hired from investment banking, but Martin didn't care about conventional wisdom or background when building his team

    80% confidence

  • She was impressed that Martin Casado actually understood world models

    80% confidence

  • Sometimes you can be absolutely right and not rich

    80% confidence

  • Martin Casado has completely replaced him as infrastructure expert

    80% confidence

  • The infrastructure fund is one of the best funds he's ever seen

    80% confidence

  • Not worried about an AI bubble because the technology is real and demand is real

    80% confidence

  • He grew up very poor as a weird European family in a western town

    80% confidence

  • Some of the most important companies of tomorrow will be infrastructure companies

    80% confidence

  • Private valuations are crazy

    80% confidence

  • Mira Murati created ChatGPT

    80% confidence

  • There's going to be a bunch of companies that don't work, with fewer winners than people assume but they are much larger than people assume

    80% confidence

  • a16z talked themselves out of investing in neocloud providers stupidly

    80% confidence

  • It's too early to make any judgments about the fund's performance, which is usually assessed on a decade-long time horizon

    80% confidence

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