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“Oh, that's a great question. We are building a fun little consumer product, and I'm excited to kind of storytell on this. It's like a little bit different. I mean, we're three people having fun building a fun little, you know, interfaces of consumer AI and what we think might be really interesting for average normal people to experience and use. And it works out of the box. So I'm very excited for that. That's been really fun. It's what we've been up to. One of the fundamental things that I just don't want to talk the talk. I want to walk the walk. I'm excited to be able to share what we're up to. I mean, it's small, it's fun, it's interesting. And, you know, we're going to see how well it lands.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The companies are staying private longer. What does that really mean? That's crazy. Maybe we should have a law that says you have to go public at some point before XYZ. Somewhat do have that with the way RS users are structured and things like that.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I love, I think there's this, the power law dynamic that Peter introduced is really fascinating to me because it was like business outcomes. And the internet drives power law outcomes in a variety of different other scenarios as well, not just business. And I think people are starting to catch up and people are seeing this sort of wealth discrepancy that exists and technology is a crazy accelerator. Like we talked about this right at the beginning. And this entity is accelerating and returns. I think that's maybe something to look at. I don't know if the right answer or whatever, but I did see that tweet about the concentration of the inaccessible”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that creates a weird dynamic. Like, I'm going to get left behind while the guys in San Francisco are going to be enormously wealthy. That's probably one. I've heard people feeling this way, and especially there's potentially negative sentiment in technology. The NPS score probably reflects that, right? And that is not, I think that's Something to be fixed, and ownership might fix that”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would they be more bought in in AI? Would they have a positive view of AI? Or what if their kids did? What if you rolled it into the Trump accounts? And it's like, look, I have my job and I think I'll be okay. And now I know that my kids will be okay too. Yeah, they have a stake in the future. That's right. Quite literally, you can market it that way. That to me has been a very weird development where I do think people perceive tech individuals as they're hoarding or concentrating resources and wealth. For example, we're all privileged in technology. And it's wonderful, and a lot of us are exposed to this, whether it's via equity or whatnot, or even just usage. You're like, but I think there's potentially a perception with all the power outcomes that happen, that there is a concentration or a hoarding, whether if you want to use a negative terminology like that.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The fact that we don't allow normal people to have equity share stakes in OpenAI and imagine if normal people were like, I own a piece of these things. I mean, maybe that would feel much better and they would have this ownership mentality. And right now all this concentration is happening in Silicon Valley and a few people. Give people access to create and a sense of ownership earlier. And therefore, imagine if a billion people had stock in OpenAI in some way, shape or form. Maybe that's a dumb idea.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay with that, you know, so a lot of these are own goals. It's crazy if you look at the state of Massachusetts made it illegal to buy apple stock because it was too speculative when Apple was going public. It was like the early 80s, the home of Elizabeth Warren. It's like, we must protect the consumers from these enormous financial gains. The number of ridiculous things that are done in the name of protection, you know. And I think that is a fundamental underestimation of the average consumer. Yeah. Right. I think people are pretty smart, pretty savvy. They talk. They'll figure things out. And if you don't prevent them from accessing the tools, like they'll use those tools to make their lives better, you know? I have a weird idea. Tell me.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I Remember? No, it's like the billionaires drink the same Coke as you are. They're using the same goddamn iPhone. They're using Claude and ChatGPT just like you are. Yep. And like the underlying essence of equality or the access is pretty much like incredibly similar. I mean, but they don't have the same healthcare you have. And we should fix that. That's true. If you get sick as a billionaire versus a normal person, what's the delta? Dude, you'd be surprised. I mean, look at New York State right now, right? Your beloved New York City. Assuming you have insurance, right? Like that's probably the in New York State they're about to make it illegal at the state level to give or receive health advice or financial advice via oh my god like how fucked up is that right so what does that mean people who have lawyers and doctors already are going to be unaffected and people who use the models for lawyers and doctors are once again set back enormously like how can we be”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What do you mean? As in effectively, like, should the model companies give it away for free to these industries? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know how you subsidize it. Maybe it cost. Maybe it costs or whatever, something like that. But it's very interesting because actually in Dixon said this a while ago, which really got me thinking, and he's like, how many of our problems in society are actually intelligence bound versus being collective action problems? And that's why the third category I mentioned, healthcare, education, housing, housing has nothing to do with intelligence or technology. It's entirely collective action. Totally, we could just build skyscrapers in Marin tomorrow, and it would be abundant cheap housing for everybody, but we have to decide to do that together. I wonder if giving stuff away or making free. I wonder if people will realize it, you know? I think generally the world has gotten cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Like, you can go to Walmart and buy a hairdryer five bucks. That's ridiculous. Like, I...”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And if you've done the healthcare thing, we've all done it, right? The revenue cycle management, all the back office stuff, all the nurses phoning you to tell you what drugs to take the night before you get a procedure, like all of that stuff is overhead and all that adds to cost. If you can take a bunch of the cost out of that with models, and by the way, these are the numbers by category, the number one consumer of open AI models, for example, are healthcare companies and healthcare startups, you can make healthcare cheaper year over year. So I think we should, our like moonshot as an industry should be to make these two things way cheaper in the next five years, and that's how we're going to win the hearts and minds. Would you subsidize it?”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Little bit of math, and I did this math a few months ago that you can do to show how you can make education and healthcare cheaper with AI very, very quickly. And by cheaper, I don't mean disinflation, which is a reduced rate of inflation. I mean actual deflation, like cheaper than it was last year. So here's the math. Just consider for a moment. Education is actually the easiest one. Education, if you restore student administrator ratios to what they were 10 years ago, and you make professors modestly more productive, modestly, then you can actually just have education in school getting cheaper every year. Like the explosion of administrators, not professors, not teachers, but administrators is totally under discussed and it's insane. So you can make education cheaper. Like we could do it right away. We already have all the technology. We just have to make a different set of choices. For healthcare, 45% of healthcare cost is administration. It's all this over.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some sense primitive, and that we are competing for resources, competing for finite things and whatnot. But I think the framing has to be around like hopefully we are, if we do our jobs well, we're moving towards a world that's highly abundant in everything that humans might actually need. I think that the number one way you change the NPS of AI is you make important things cheap quickly, like soon, okay? And we've all seen the famous chart that Mark has tweeted a thousand times, right? Which is the diffusion of products, prices on a per product category basis, right? So this is the famous one where it's 1970, everything is essentially referenced to that date, and then certain things get more expensive, certain things get cheaper. The number one thing that gets cheaper is flat screen TVs. So flat screen TVs are asymptoting to essentially zero dollars. The things that are getting expensive are healthcare education and housing.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Conceptually, those are really fun ways to have these discussions. I mean, obviously, some of it's not kosher, I possibly say, or do out loud, but I think that's actually really cool. Learning from other people is what we do best. Like monkeys or like, you know, apes or watching other people, other, they use tools because they learn how to use. That's wonderful. Imagine if I'm using a tool wrong, like hammer backwards or whatever. Somebody's like, no, you're an idiot. This is how you use it. Wonderful. Now I've benefited. Maybe that other person got a dopamine hit because they proved me wrong. And I think in the end, we all win. It's great. And I think that's how I treat my account in some ways. It's almost as if I'm not really trying to gain anything. It's just that I don't have anything to lose. Like, what do I lose by being raw?”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The stuff will weave into our lives, and I don't think anybody's there's not going to be a single person who doesn't use this stuff. It's just a matter of when. That's going to be interesting. I don't know.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How do we use applications or specific types of things? Are they even necessary anymore? Do we even need an interface if we're just talking to it? I don't know. I think those are really interesting questions. I personally like the ambient lay AI layer. I think that you're seeing a little bit of this with open claw and whatnot and sort of working agents working in the background and kind of surfacing the right things at the right time. There's a great product a while ago that didn't work called Google Now. The whole purpose of Google Now was to kind of predict a search, right? It's like, what are you going to search for next, Eric? Like in some sense, right? It was ahead of its time in some sense. You marry it with context and intelligence. I think that is actually a huge vector for how to think about what the future of AI”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sort of ethereal entity that exists. I mean, obviously, movies have personified this, and there's been her and whatnot, but it is going to be fascinating to see how weaves into your daily life, whether it's your home or work in a very ambient state. I know it's not about like listening to you all the time, potentially, or it's not about, but I think there's a lot of these explorations that have yet to be done at the interface layers. How to say I talk to you first. Today, that's a push notification, I think, roughly. Is that it? I don't know. How does Apple integrate AI into iOS and weave it into the operating system and the”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the most interesting thing to me is they seem like in a very infant state in some sense. I don't know. I mean, they're really powerful in one end of the dimension, right? But they're also like, it's unclear to me experiencing intelligence through just conversation back and forth is one way, but The ambient layers are really fun and interesting to think about. Like, we were building a fun little product that woke you up with AI, right? And it's like a very primitive thing. Everybody wakes up in the morning, God forbid otherwise. But how is it going to weave into your daily existence as if it's not a chatbot, but more as a...”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Proliferation and the marketing and the storytelling of Claude has been aesthetically really next level and it's been really, really fun to watch. I like good products. I like talking about good products. And I like praising the people who make good products. That's what we're about here, right? Like it's like give credit where credit is due. They've made a beautiful little tool. And when paired with like a thing in your pocket that is also crafted and artisan with Apple and iPhone. And then you get this like really magical intelligent experience on your device wherever you are.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I found that really interesting because it sort of explores the idea of, I think, going back to our initial point, like, what is a human and what are we doing here? How does technology help us in terms of understanding ourselves and the way that we exist? And I felt like there was like less sycophancy, there's this pushback, just like talking to you real human being. It's personified. Like it's called Claude. And Claude is known as a person. So it is, it feels very crafted artisan slash, dare I say, premium to a certain extent. And I think it's been really fun. And one of my sister is a doctor and she randomly just, she was using ChatGPT for a few years and she canceled and she was like, I'm using Claude now and I gotta wait. I was like, what? How did you find out about this? What? It's not. And I think it just goes to show you that the...”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I think one of the things that they focused on going back to our Rick Rubin point, right? It's like it feels artisan. It feels like it's got a soul. Whereas I think in some sense the other models feel a little bit more robotic and a little bit more. Utilitarian, if you will. And if you think about what AGI is, and I think, or there's a great Simpsons episode, right, where one of the Bart sells his soul for $5 to Mill House was one of the most profound, interesting episodes of The Simpsons. And okay, well, he wrote Bart's soul on a piece of paper and then handed it to him And then he felt it He felt like he didn't have a soul.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A human personality works and how intelligence works. And I think that's a grant. Like, it's such a, it no longer feels like a delivery vehicle. It feels like the actual thing in the payload and the underlying, I don't know if that makes sense. That's how my mind works. I don't know if you guys think about it that way. But in some sense, we've moved up leveled a lot in the complexities increased drastically. Training a model and then reinforcement learning, human feedback, what's interesting, there's like multiple different types of ways that things engage. I think these are just”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You would have kind of been like, wait, what? Yeah. What does that really mean? And these guys were with Kevin and Jack and whatnot. They were architecting, I think, delivery vehicles in some sense, right? Like they were developing architecture for humans to add payload and then send it to another human, whether it's broadcast or one-to-one with Dick was the news and people posted in the comments and Twitter was like another version of that. Now I think we're kind of designing this upper echelon of how”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, holy crap, I was at OpenAI. We were discussing a bunch of things around how do you think about personality development of models and the fact that you can't really easily change them or how do you reduce the sycophancy of the models? And these are really technically hard problems. Every technology cycle to me is increasingly harder because you're probably going into a different part of how the human mind or the human operates. Right now we're developing personality. That's insane. Like if you asked 10 years ago, we were going to build personalities for computers.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is just a sort of a canvit, like the painting, and some people like hard edge paintings and those Renaissance style and some people like modern art and some people like this water lilies. And I think just a different form and at least all the initial versions of it, going back to. The Web 2.0 era with Kevin Rose, and it was a very different time because building network products like that, whether it's Dig or Twitter, fundamentally different than developing personalities of a model.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As one type of artist or another. And they have like brushstrokes that you use. You know, I was like Monet and it was like, I loved what I love is I love going in and looking at the actual brush folks of the painting. Then you get these like pixel level understanding of like, wow, he used this color for this brush stroke or whatever. And then you zoom out and you're like, oh my God, I see this wonderful little painting. I'm deeply inspired by it. So it's just like I think people are utilizing different styles and different forms of like a different type of, but it's in the end, when you're doing anything new.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're like willing these things into existence that were unimaginable five years ago. Okay. And that's great. And ChatGPT is the fastest product to what I think is a billion users, et cetera, et cetera. There's another archetype from the Web 2.0 days, right? These are like the gentle sort of consumer, I don't know, philosophers whose canvas was technology, right? Think of Kevin Rose, all these people were just cut from a different cloth and they were perhaps more students of culture than technology. Okay, and you got two very different forms of types of companies, and I don't quite know where I'd put Zuck, but let's set them aside for a moment. Do you think that there's a preferred model is like, is the gentle builder more of a New York informed model and the technical builder is more of an SF informed model? Is it just something that matches with the product cycle? And then maybe talk a bit about what you think your strengths are and how it meets the moment. I think of most people.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I read recently again, and I was like, you know, you're not entitled to the fruits of your labor. And, um, I never think about the outcomes. I just try to figure out what I enjoy, how much fun I like to have and the problems that I like thinking about. I like all this account that I have is just pure. On, like, I get, I really enjoy talking and thinking about this. And my brain prompts me to think about it. We were talking about, you know, the real prompt is in your brain. Like that is where it originates. And then you're translating that into some text that you're sending into AI where we call that a prompt. And sure, yeah. But like. Without the spark in your existence, in your inner self, nothing would happen.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Focus on what I am passionate about. Like, I was at a demo day or whatever. There was a lot of individuals who I thought clearly they were, they found the idea through AI to work out what to work on. It was fascinating. I was like, are you really interested in real estate? Like, I don't know. Do you want to spend your time working on this? And is this an interesting problem? Like, I don't think about it from a technology perspective. Like, screw AI. I don't care about what area are you interested in? What thing drives you? If I were an investor, I think that's probably the only thing that matters is, are you going to keep going into this problem space if you're not that interested in it? Look, we're having a lot of fun doing this. And I think if you're not having a lot of fun doing stuff, you probably shouldn't work on it. It's something that it's a privileged thing, obviously. And often a lot of people don't find work fun. They have to do it because it's economically necessary. But if you're going to build a company, try to have fun with it. There's a great quote in the Bhagavad Gita, which.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Shakespeare was able to capture an essence of the world, like not simple terminology, maybe back then it was simple, but in a few words or a few sentences. And I think we need to make this stuff much more easily accessible and useful for individuals. I don't know how that will be, what that will look like, but it's certainly something that I love to think about personally, and I don't know where we'll end up, but I view it more as an art than a science at the moment. Yeah. But it's cool. It's a fun time to exist as a technologist.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet, I don't think most people are utilizing in such a fashion, obviously, and I think most people are utilizing very, very, very basic tasks. And so I think Brian, like the Stone Ages of how people view and perceive and use these things, even though there's a billion people utilizing them, but they're not utilizing them to the full capabilities. Like, I think the number one challenge for even, I think OpenAI mentioned is that how do we make this stuff the power of the models more easily accessible and useful in terms of what they can do? And I think this is happening with agents. It's happening today, but it still seems very primitive and very inaccessible to a lot of individuals. I think I personally like to think about this because the way that I like to think about the world, one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes, and this is why the Shakespeare picture exists, is brevity is the soul of wit.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, I don't think most people are utilizing them anything beyond the basics. Like, it's fascinating to me that every single time we're focused on really advanced capability demonstration, holy crap, this is a PhD researcher or whatever”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you have ease of access and reward structures around it and a human desire paired with it that's deep. You get some interesting outcomes and the desire and the pursuit of connection is an incredible and important element of any human's existence. And the idea that AI can help you facilitate that with depth and scale and ever-ending, like AI doesn't get tired.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is more interesting? Like, how do I personally think about it? What am I missing? And those are really things that help me grow intellectually, spiritually, personally, relationships, all of those things. So inherently, I mean, if I understand your question correctly, it's more like these things are really helping us experience ourselves much better. And I think that probably is the greatest achievement you can possibly have. I mean, we're tool builders. And every tool that we've ever built has helped us progress as a human species or individually, whether it's art or the wheel or whatever. And I can't believe the scale at which we're at now, right? Like it's absolutely unbelievable. And I think what's shocking to me is that the collective has not caught on yet.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I don't know what we did, but it's moving really, really fast. And then, do you think if I was almost separate the three ideas, you know, there's technology, there's culture which is collective, and then there's a sort of however you measure our individual progress as a human species. Culture's changing, technologies improving, where are we as people? Are we more spiritually mature, less spiritually mature than we were 50 years ago, 500 years ago, 5,000 years ago? Or are we just basically Neanderthals with iPhones? I think generally technology should help us understand ourselves in a better way such that we are able to have intellectual, spiritual, potential growth as a species, as a collective and the individual, I suspect. And I think I firmly believe that I'm like pro technology helping achieve that. I love using AI to be able to understand myself. Like if I say something, it's like, wait, does this make sense?”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And, you know, I think that that's been great. I grew up playing a game called SimCity. And in SimCity, you can increase the simulation speeds. It's a button that allows you to increase the simulation of the city and the cars move faster and the people move faster and the disasters happen faster and everything is just increasing. And I feel like in the recent, maybe obviously in the last 20 years with respect to iPhone and whatnot, but man, in the last two, three, four years, holy shit. Who the hell hit the 100x speed? Like it feels ridiculous. Like if I talk to somebody that something happened last month, it feels like it happened like 10 years ago. Nicholas Maduro got pulled from Venezuela and brought to America in the most amazing outfit. And people forgot about this. Like, it's just incredibly fascinating the way that the world is moving so fast and technology is accelerating that. I think if it's the fuel that is empowering that engine.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In maybe an interesting, or this how my mind works. I think my writing is all a reflection of the prompts that happen in my brain that get translated somehow into words that are in the right order that other people can interpret and therefore have a reaction to and maybe generate a little bit of hate online or a little bit of love. And I think that that's actually quite beautiful that we're all able to do this. I do have a Shakespeare profile photo.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a lot of people that have a great perspective in a singular dimension. Got Ben Thompson writing about technology and markets. And if you want to have an analysis of an earnings report of Microsoft, I mean, who better in the world than Ben Thompson? I mean, you can pack eat rates about deep tech and crazy, I think 40 papers about industries and things. And really fun to read, really great things. What I notice is like I've been in technology for such a long time since I was a kid and I'm particularly fascinated with culture in general as well. And I think that intersection of tech and culture is so fascinating to me. And I like to relate everything back to computer science and how I've learned about the world through computer science and computers in general. And I think all my tweets and things are really, in essence, relating the idea of life to technology and culture to technology.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, I have this weird tendency to where I like to add humor into things that are adoring. Maybe not inappropriate. Anyway, I think, look, it's funny how the internet now, everybody can comment on everything.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're live with Signal, the great culture commentator of our time. You have opinions on everything from... You know, what's happening in AI both as a consumer but also the industry to what's happening in all the big tech companies to what's happening in dating markets more broadly to how the product should be developed. There's no commentator like you. How do you sort of make sense of yourself on the internet in terms of how you thread these topics together? What sort of threads at all?”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's funny how the internet now everybody can comment on everything. Every technology cycle to me is increasingly harder because you're probably going into a different part of how the human mind operates. Right now we're like developing personality. That's insane. There's technology. There's culture which is collective. And then there's our individual progress as a human species. Culture is changing. Technology is improving. Where are we as people? I can't believe the scale at which we're at now. Like it's absolutely unbelievable. I was at OpenAI. We were discussing a bunch of things around how do you think about personality development of models and these are really technically hard problems. I think the number one challenge even OpenAI mentioned is that how do we make the power of the models more easily accessible and useful in terms of what they can do? And I think this is happening with agents, but it still seems very primitive and very inaccessible to a lot of individuals.”
2026-04-16 · a16z Podcast · Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source