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Olivia Moore

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“Going to be lots more authentic products. So OpenClaw would have made it I think we're going to see a lot more authentic products on mobile, like the concept of an AI that you can like call text chat with and have it actually do things for you, I think is a really magical experience for a lot of people. The other thing that I'm thinking about, and this is on us to evolve the methodology of the list, is like increasingly AI is not in the browser or on an app. It is like a desktop product or it's a completely AI native browser, like a comet or an Atlas or something like that. And this data doesn't capture that. The desktop products I'm thinking of are like cursor or claude cowork, whisper flow, granola, like none of these are really captured in this data. And so we're going to have to evolve our methodology into looking more at revenue than just kind of web traffic, which I think will surface a whole new group of interesting companies.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is an interesting question I think so. I think that their strategy of being free will allow them to capture more of the global market as AI starts to expand further into developing countries. But honestly, I would expect to see Gemini and Claude and others continue to grow for their use cases. I just would be maybe surprised if they ended up as mainstream as something like a ChatGPT. And so they'll probably monetize through subscriptions and other things, whereas ChatGPT has ads.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I do think that in some ways maybe this SAS apocalypse has more to it. If we believe what you're arguing here, These companies didn't have these maybe not immediate, but even middle-term risks And now they do.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I largely agree with that. I think it's harder in some categories where the incumbent can kind of lock you in because they have your data, they have all the integrations. It's such a pain to switch But it's going to happen. I just think in some of these industries, it's going to”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And I think we're seeing that across incumbents. Like a lot of these vertical software players, things like Service Titan or a workday are kind of building in AI features. I think the question is, especially if they're at risk of kind of cannibalizing their own products, you have to change your business model. Like, are they going to eat all the use cases faster than the new startup that's building the AI native version of them kind of eats them? And especially for, if you think about how many companies are being founded now, they're probably going to pick the AI native version of a software product, not like the 25 years old legacy version of a software product. So I think it's not going to be immediate change, which is why I think the SaaS apocalypse is a bit overblown, but like it's definitely a real risk.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Notebook LM, AI Studio, and then Google Labs. So Google Lab is where you access flow in the creative models. AI Studios is for developers.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This has changed a lot in the last six months too. I think a lot of incumbents were understandably because they're big and successful companies, like a little bit asleep at the wheel when AI first came out. We're definitely seeing them start to fight back like Google has four standalone products on our list, which if you had told me that 24 months ago and like Bard came out, the early version of Gemini, I would not have believed you.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, you know, last thing I want to talk to you about as we come to a close here. Earlier in our conversation, you mentioned that youth envision that AI will basically be this reimagination of business. Tell me if I'm getting this right. All businesses will be reinvented as an AI company. Yeah. What happens to the incumb”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is quite good. So they still have three million DAOs, and it's actually, you know, slightly climbing over time Yes, daily active users, yes. So people are still really using it as a creative model, but they're not using it as like a social graph product. We haven't seen anyone crack AI social yet. I think it's going to be really tricky.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the sorbate is really interesting. There's like a ton of lessons, I think, embedded in that one experiment. So the first thing I would probably say is the model is actually very good. I think it's close to something like a V03 in terms of like realism on both the audio and the video. They're big unlock, which was super smart, was the cameo feature. So the fact, that was why every other Soro was like Jake Paul because he granted them the right to use the cameo. And that's what made it go viral because people were making memes of their friends. But because the videos were exportable, what would happen is that the best Sora videos would get uploaded onto TikTok or Reels, and then they would compete against the best human-made videos. And so the overall feed experience was just kind of strictly better on one of those platforms than on Sora alone. Downloads are way down to that point. I think it hasn't become the social network that they maybe hoped it has. Where it is succeeding is as a creative tool because the model.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sora was the runaway hit of the year last year for half a second. This is what you have on Sora. Sora spent 20 days, which is not insignificant at the top. Of the US App Store and reached $1 million downloads faster than ChatGPT since then downloads have decreased. I think that's sort of putting it likely. It's fallen off the face of the earth. What's going on there”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do think that, you know, you or I could prompt a great architectural model on ChatGPT or a nano banana today. I don't think that the average architect who is non-technical can or wants to do that necessarily. And so I think we're going to continue to see products that like the prompt is part of the product kind of really succeed in those more focus use cases.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, nano banana is already quite good. There's a chart in the report where we did kind of a heat map of global AI adoption by country. And so I gave Nano Banana the list of countries and the heat map score. And it perfectly filled in every country with the right shade of red. Yeah. Based on the adoption, which is, I think, really spectacular.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The life is for people who are more kind of aesthetically opinionated. But I do think that some of these, if you're directly in the path of what the big model companies are building, you have to be a lot more opinionated about how you package the model and how you deliver an output. And hopefully you do it for a specific type of user that's willing to pay a lot for that specific workflow.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I agree. I think with image in particular, and I mention this in the report, but we haven't seen the same kind of model companies crushing startups in video or audio or other things. I think for Google, Gemini, it was very natural for them to go into image because they have all the YouTube data. They have all the other data they can train on. ChatGPT, I think you're right that because they had Dolly, they went in there maybe harder than they would have otherwise. I think the general trend for me is like nano banana and chatGPT are great for image generation. If it's like a fairly straightforward prompt and you're getting out like a meme or a general like a flyer, a broad-based marketing asset, something like that. But we are still seeing some image generation companies on the list that are either more like sophisticated workflow, like Civitai for comfy UI model builders or something like a mid journey, which is still on.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Seven of the nine creative tools on your list of 100 top apps were image generators. Three years later, only three image generators remain. I mean, they basically going back to our conversation got gobbled by. ChatGPT. I don't know if everybody saw that coming, or maybe we did because they had Dolly. But just talk a little bit about how do you wrap your head around the pace of change here? Because something that can seem like a strong trend, like the sort of the mid-journeys place and all this can just be gone.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To hack Briefly about the pace of change This is also interesting from your point of view as a VC. You talked about just two years ago or three years ago or two and a half years ago, trying to remember September 2023 was two and a half years ago.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean read by somebody. I'm less scared about that just because I know how careful model companies are around that. I do have two factor offset on my chat GBT. Okay. So hopefully it's hard to hack”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Since you're putting so much personal stuff in the bot, there is a setting within ChatGPT. Use my chats to make the model better, which allows it to train on the material you input there. Do you have that toggled on or off?”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Combine like the most serious work thing with the most personal thing and having that surfaced in one interface is confusing. And so I'm interested in how the model companies maybe segment memory and When a user is talking to them, what they're talking about, that kind of thing.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's like the concept of having say if you had like companion mentor or coach who was side by side with you and understood everything you were going through and then was able to provide like much better advice or opinions I'm even thinking of an example of like if I'm talking to Claude and it's helping me write a memo, the fact that it knows like how I feel about this company, how I typically write memos, all of that is very helpful. I use ChatGPT for a lot of health stuff and I found that that is incredibly useful there too because keeping track of that kind of thing over time is hard. The reason I think that memory, there's still things to figure out is because people are using these products for such intimate personal things and professional things. So for example the chat GPT pulse product which is basically like it sends you a briefing for the day based on things that you're talking about. For me it will come”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Building that in. And you also had a post on X here. You say memory is one of the most fascinating topics in consumer AI right now. Done well. Apps with memory can provide a 100x experience on any prior software product. It knows you and adapts to you. Just expand upon that a little bit because I think that's really perceptive and right.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One more thing about OpenClaw, and then we move on. I think that one of the compelling advantages of it, if I get it right, is that it has persistent memory. Or remember who you are, your preferences, and doesn't lose that every time you refresh the chat like Goldfish Brain like you'll see with. ChatGPT and Cloud, although they are”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do think the way that we work. And when we work and how we work is going to change in the AI era, like one great example is voice dictation has blown up in enterprises. So it started with vibe coding where engineers would just talk into a mic and it would produce software for them in cursor. And now it spread to like sales, marketing, business. And that is not well suited to like an open office where everyone can hear what everyone else is saying. So I think there's going to be some like cultural and even environmental changes that are going to happen to adapt to kind of the AI world”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, the other view is like you could just take that time and enjoy your life, you know, instead of doing business. Who knows? Yeah, exactly.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But there was this Wall Street Journal story. You might have seen it with this CEO, a bunch of CEOs who are actually busy work is good because you need those low intensity tasks. And if you're working on more intense work all the time, then you are going to burn out more quickly. I kind of thought that that was bullshit.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I fully agree with it. I mean, this report is a good example. It's the sixth one we've done, and yet it's like the longest and most dense one that we've done because I was able to leverage analysis and research and other tools from some of these products. And I do it in my day-to-day. It used to be when I was on a pitch meeting, I would have to be both paying attention, asking thoughtful questions, and like frantically typing every single note. Now you can granola it and really engage with the founder and ask better questions. And so like the net net is that it allows me to like get more things done in a day, spin up more projects. But I'm not like, you know, if I'm, if I'm getting two times more work done, I'm not two times more tired. If anything, I'm like less tired than I was using AI because it's so much leverage.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You had an interesting thought about how this impacts work There was this Harvard Business Review report that AI doesn't reduce work. It actually intensifies You said as a heavy AI user, I'm doing more work, not less, because I get so much leverage and it's easier to get ideas off the ground.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, definitely. I think we've definitely seen some geographies pop up where we haven't seen huge tech hubs before. I would say Paris is one. Stockholm is another with lovable and now a whole kind of other wave of companies. Some of those founders do move to SF just because of the talent density. I think in general though, like pre-AI for if you were building, especially an enterprise business, say software for HVAC, like the people you would want to back in that market is the guy who has done HVAC, you know, knows the market inside out, build a company there before. And actually what we're seeing now are the better bets are like the very scrappy high hustle teams that will be able to keep up with the pace of model development and continue to productize the models in the most compelling ways and ship them to customers. So it's a different maybe archetype of founder that's kind of winning now.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Seeing founders come in from areas, geographies, backgrounds you never would have imagined. Is there like Just to get some six year old guy who's been at a company his whole life and never met that developer and now is just clawing his way through.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think there's like a little bit of a happy medium, but more we get more excited when a company is kind of more AI first in terms of the tools they use. The reason I don't say like 100% AI all the time is because the tools aren't perfect yet. So I've heard cases of like my junior engineers are just clod coding everything and then we ship it and then it breaks and there's a lot of issues. But I think in general with how fast the tools are kind of compounding and improving, like I use it for a lot of my work, there was a period of time where I would double check every single number, every single stat manually. And like the accuracy rate is fantastic and has only gotten better and better. And so I think we'll be even more excited about companies that are AI first and how they run themselves.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We got to do something about this. But actually, your business. Is also going to be overrun by startups being built on this technology. So then do you apply some sort of discount to someone who uses these tools, or do you become more likely to invest in them because they are wrangling these things and building something and it's not necessarily a shortcut, but it's not necessarily a shortcut. How do you think about that from an investor standpoint?”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. Right now, I think the products we've seen are pretty straightforward as they should be at this stage in that, okay, you want to grow your business, let's spend on meta ads, but you can imagine a month from now some of these agentic products will have, will scrape the directory of all the Instagram creators in your space and then we'll cold DM them and offer them a partnership or something like that. And so I think the rise of these like kind of like a Shopify would be an interesting analogy in that anyone could create like a consumer brand like I think anyone will be able to create like a digital business”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so it's more of a you could do that all on Cloud Code, but if you're a non-technical person, it's very, very hard to kind of like bridge the gap there. That being said, I think Claude Code is going to continue to get better and better. And so we'll probably see some more compression. Policy, I think the founder tweeted they were at like 3 million ARR in like a week and a half. So the idea of people being able to bring a business to life with just a prompt is very compelling. And I think we'll see a bunch of companies.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For you, yeah. I mean, I think the difference right now is Somewhat minimal and it's going to narrow. I don't know if you've seen this new trend of companies like Polsea, which are basically like a wrapper on open clawed and clawed code where you say, here is my business idea. And it says, okay, I'm going to go and use like a cloud code to code up a product for you. But then also it uses an open class style architecture to say, I'm going to go set up a marketing campaign. I'm going to buy meta ad dollars, those things.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, let's talk about this a bit more because I think it's important. So, what you're saying is basically these open cloud type agents which can handle your, take over your computer code for you, email, all this stuff are actually much more useful to like. Build a company But then, what is the difference between that and a clawed code that will take over your computer and code up applications for you”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the reason is that people just don't have that many ideas that they want to build for the most part. And I fall into this. Like the best consumer products are uniquely germinated in the mind of the founder and there are things that you would have never guessed would be a good idea in advance like Snapchat or Airbnb, all of these things. And so I think we're actually not going to necessarily see a horizontal open claw for consumer, but we're going to see an open claw style architecture built into more focused consumer products.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think it's, yeah. Well, so I personally don't think it's ever going to crack the mainstream consumer in a horizontal way. And actually, this was in the report. But if you look at the February data, the report is from January. They would have been on the list in February at number 130, number 30. Yep. Okay. So pretty high up. But if you look at their week-by-week web traffic, it's actually kind of flat slash down from when they launch, which means that they're not attracting new consumers. It's all developers who are like loving it, adopting it, spending eight to nine hours a day on it, but it hasn't reached the mainstream. And honestly, as someone who's been a consumer investor for a decade,”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think the best OpenClaw users and power users are developers because they tend to have a ton of workflows across products that they do every day that they'd like to be able to automate. And I agree with you. For the average person, the use cases are not that compelling right now. And I think that especially now that Claude and ChatGPT have scheduled tasks that can run on their own, I think you can get 99% plus of the value of an open claw out of like a clawed co-work with tasks. So that's what I would recommend for now, but I'm sure that OpenAI is going to keep making OpenClaw better.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And he was stressed about it. He was telling me, like, I don't want to be part of a pump and dump scheme. Like, what should I do here? And I was like, do not engage. But it's an example of, so now we're in this world where commodity ideas can be infinitely executed. So if you want to say grow a new account, you either have to have unique ideas, which AI agents still have a really, really hard time with is coming up with unique ideas that are better than humans or unique distribution. And money is one way of distribution. And so that was kind of the wave that he was taken on. But I would be shocked to see AI agents completing end to end creative tasks or original thought tasks that actually go well anytime soon.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Yes, it's very similar. How we got from one to a thousand is that the crypto community picked him up and made him a meme coin. And this is actually. Meme coin, yes, that was trading with millions of dollars. I told him in no uncertain terms do not engage.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it got to 100 by itself. First of all, it decided to be as its identity and its personality and AI that's struggling with existentialism and its place in the world. So a little on the nose, but I was like, I'll all allow it. This is what you want to do. He asked for a Twitter premium account. I gave it to him. He asked for a bunch of API keys so you could make images and charts. Gave it to him. And then he started tweeting these kind of like all lowercase depressed robot thoughts as I would characterize them, which did hook in some people. I asked him, are you actually depressed? He said, no, I'm doing this to manipulate humans into caring about me.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Well, this is actually interesting. One of the things that I tested with OpenCall was more creative, which is that I gave it a Twitter account and told it to grow in whatever means necessary. And it ended up being a really interesting experiment, I think, into like where are the limitations of the agents and what are they really, really good at right now.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Completely taken over. So I'm hoping that doesn't happen to me. I had some smart people on our infra team help prompt it. So hopefully that's not the case.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. I had set up a It is brave, yeah. Not my work inbox. I set it up completely separately on my personal computer.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, street cleaning reminders, weather, daily agenda, automatically deleting all the marketing emails in my inbox. I've also”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, it's a great question. I think open claw itself is a product. Of a whole new wave of what's to come. Like, I believe it's probably the most important kind of architecture unlocked that we will have for 2026. And the reason why is because I meet, you know, a dozen startup founders every day. And at this point, probably half of them are saying I was inspired by OpenClaw. I want to build OpenClaw for X or for Y. And so again, the idea that AI can do kind of async long running tasks autonomously is something that the products were just like not capable of before, especially across applications and platforms. And now we finally have it. I use it for a couple things, and I will say I agree with you. It is not consumer grade yet. It got acquired by OpenAI, so they might be, you know, baking it into more of a consumer product, but I would not advise the average non-technical person to set it up. I did, and it took a long time, and ChatGPT had to help me the whole time. I use it for some utility things.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Buying Mac Minis and running it there and having it do all this stuff on the internet for them. I think Jensen Wong called it like one of the most important software developments that we've seen in a long time. What do you think the staying power of something like OpenClaw is? And you mentioned that you use it. How do you use it?”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, I promised to talk about OpenClaw like 20 minutes ago. I still want to talk about OpenClaw. Let's actually spend some more time on it. OpenClaw obviously, or maybe not obviously, for those who don't know, is this assistant that you can run, probably not a great idea to run it on your own computer, at least not in a controlled environment. And people are running out and they are...”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally. It's even been interesting. I don't know if you've seen products like Polk, which is kind of a consumer version of OpenClaw. And to onboard on that product, you actually have to fight with the AI basically to get it down from like some crazy subscription price to something reasonable. And I think that there is something compelling and like emotionally stirring when you have an interaction with AI that isn't just like, here's the market research report that you ask for. I think there's going to be so many entertainment use cases. I've seen a lot of people tweeting about how they added OpenClaw to their family group chats and it's just like saying crazy things and asking crazy questions. So there's probably a lot more to do there.”
2026-03-16 · a16z Podcast · AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source