Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

0:00There's a lot of fear and worry about the future with AI. I want to talk about this idea that if you fall behind, you're going to become part of this >> permanent underclass. [music]

0:09>> It's a funny dark fantasy that we seem to have as Silicon Valley collectively. Like things have never been better by almost every measure. >> This is a technology that really

0:17amplifies our agency. It kind of unbundles skill from desire. Not only can we dramatically [music] drive productivity, we can dramatically drive ambition. >> Can you get too ambitious? Is there like

0:26a limit? >> In the old days, 3 years ago, we would see a company and if what they were trying to do was too ambitious, we would, [music] you know, not engage. Today, we're almost seeing the opposite

0:35problem. An idea that's too small is not something that we want to engage with. >> You have this interesting take that company building more and more is going to become this kind of series of

0:43creating loops. >> We're going to see this sort of cascading set of everything from a loop per person [music] to loops that can run large parts of the company. With that

0:51said, I think humans are a critical ingredient. The loop will help you climb to the local maxima, but then it plateaus. You need human intuition. You need somebody to actually help you land