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Acharya: 75% of public SaaS companies raised prices post-ChatGPT
“I looked at the data this morning, and if you look at SaaS, public market SaaS companies, 75% have raised prices since ChatGPT was released.”
Acharya: Coding agents dramatically lower enterprise software switching costs
“But now with coding agents, the complexity of transitioning from SAP to Oracle is dramatically lower, the speed, the risk. So that is how I think coding agents shows up in enterprise software, especially amongst public names. Decrease switching costs, more cus…”
Acharya: AI movie creation will be won by startups, not Adobe
“If you said something like, you know, software movies or AI movie making or sort of AI assisted movies, that's just not a category in which there is an incumbent, and I'm betting that a native company will actually win that. It probably won't be Adobe.”
Acharya: AI dev tools Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code will all grow
“The desire and demand for software, both to make it and to consume it, is dramatically more than the supply that we have today, and I think there is a developer and developer adjacent archetype for whom Cursor is going to be perfect, Codex as an app, Codex as …”
Acharya: OpenAI reached $20B top line by tripling capacity and matching demand
“Look, this is not my area of focus or expertise, but one, you look at OpenAI's recent investment announcement, sorry, which is that there are twenty billion of top line. And the way that they got there is they three X capacity and they three X top line. So eve…”
Acharya: Enterprise spending is shifting from SaaS to human labor budgets
“I mean, we're already seeing it.”
Acharya: Multi-functional AI bundling will drive 10x enterprise productivity gains
“So the most sophisticated companies are starting to take support, sales, collections, operations, bundle them all together with one broad goal, like CAC improvement. And I think that is going to be the 10 X on productivity more than saying, hey, we're just goi…”
Acharya: AI legal software value capture will approach $500B labor spend
“I don't think that we're in the eight to 12% anymore, right? Fifty billion legal software traditionally I think we're going to be somewhere between the 50 and the 500, and I think closer to the 500 than the 50.”
Acharya: Software markets are shifting from execution tools to thinking tools like Figma
“That, by the way, is sort of ahead of where I think the market is going in terms of moving from products focused on execution, which today are being subsumed by coding agents, to markets focused on thinking, right? And I think a lot of the thinking work is goi…”
Acharya: Software will eventually capture 80% to 90% of discretionary spend
“We're going to asymptote to 80 to 90%, I believe, for consumer spend and enterprise spend. The way we do that is by pushing the frontier, not by Cutting. The sort of discretionary spend. Of course, there's going to be, you know. Rent and food. But yes, dude, I…”
Anish Acharya: Early AI market leaders from 2023-2024 have maintained their dominance
“In this product cycle, what's actually interesting is a bunch of the early leaders from 23 and 24 have maintained their lead. You know, we talked about Harvey. That's a really impressive company. You know, Gamma is a really impressive company. You know, Cursor…”
AI Power Users Pay 10x Higher Subscription Prices Than Traditional Software
“You look at Grok, heavy, it's 300 a month. ChatGPT, 200 a month. Gemini Ultra, two 50 a month. So we're seeing 10 X higher prices paid, and you have consumption revenue on top of it. So for the power users, they're paying incredibly high subscription rates plu…”
Acharya: AI customer prices are rising, showing no supply overbuild
“Two, if you actually look at the prices that customers are paying, they're going up. So you're not seeing the sort of price compression that you would get from a typical overbuild of supply, right?”
Acharya: Fast-growing startups are skipping $500 million growth funding rounds
“Yeah, that's right.”
Acharya: Token cost for GPT-4 has dropped 100x since release
“The cost of actually a token on GPT-IV has, you know, gone down a hundred X since the model was released.”
a16z Evaluates GPs via Founder 360s Every Two Years
“And he's like, well, in the near term, we don't measure you based on returns. We measure you by going and talking to every one of your founders every two years, doing a three 60 on you. And if your founders say you're telling them the truth, you're showing up,…”
Acharya: Seemingly Competing Startups Diverge Within 12 to 18 Months
“I think we're in a part of the market where companies are diverging very rapidly. So even companies that appear to be directly competing today tend to be not competing in, you know, 12 months, 18 months.”
Acharya: Browse-based UIs will remain largely unchanged despite AI
“In a world where we have intent-based and browse-based, browse-based largely stays the same. And perhaps the future of intent-based is chat. I'm still a little skeptical.”
Acharya: Kriya founders pitched a16z wearing matching kimonos drinking Celsius
“I mean, the Korea guys to me are a great example. You know, they come into our first pitch, first meeting with everyone in the room, Thanksgiving holiday. And, you know, I think they're both wearing matching kimonos. They're both drinking Celsius's, you know, …”
Acharya: Offshore BPO call center jobs are prime targets for AI automation
“So if you look at BPOs, you know, business process outsourcing, they're the areas in which there's the least ambiguity, where the job is literally a series of tasks, where people in offshore call centers take a task off the queue. Those things are very well se…”
Acharya: Deel's Alex Bouaziz treats a16z partners like an extended sales team
“I mean, I basically have a sales quota with Alex, you know, and DG would say the same thing. And Ben, he's even calling Ben saying, Hey Ben, can you help make this introduction XYZ? Like, He knows how to get the best out of Andreessen Horowitz, and all of the,…”