API

also referred to as: apis

23 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 16 people on the record · first statement Mar 10, 2018 by Martin Casado · across every show →

Everything said about API, oldest first

Mar 10, 2018
Insight
Casado: Applications are disaggregating into standalone APIs
“What we're seeing is we're seeing a next level of expansion where the app itself is being disaggregated into a set of APIs.”
Martin Casado Mar 10, 2018 ▶ 3:12 The World Through an API
Mar 10, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: APIs will become the primary interface for consuming software
“So we believe APIs are going to be the new way of consuming computer science, right? It used to be an application on, say your desktop, and then perhaps it was a webpage or a mobile app. Next, we think it's going to be an API.”
Martin Casado Mar 10, 2018 ▶ 8:14 The World Through an API
Mar 10, 2018 positive
Insight
Casado: Domain experts can build software without low-level engineering knowledge
“So if you compare that with today, today there's an API for everything. I mean, here's an example of a few thousand APIs everywhere from getting a random quote from Chuck Norris to identifying images in a picture to searching your email inbox. Right. And so wh…”
Martin Casado Mar 10, 2018 ▶ 6:07 The World Through an API
Mar 10, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: APIs represent the next major expanse in computing
“We actually think that APIs are the next big expanse in computing.”
Martin Casado Mar 10, 2018 ▶ 0:51 The World Through an API
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Wei Lowe: Autonomous robots consume spatial map data through APIs, not visuals
“Robots don't really need to see anything. They need to consume the data and they consume the data through APIs and so on.”
Wei Lowe Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:43 a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Cordova: APIs allow startups to focus entirely on core product competencies
“So maybe 1015 years ago, you used to need to have someone who knew how to do bookkeeping or accounting and payments and shipping and all of these different services to get up and running. And now you can purely focus on your core competency and like building y…”
Christina Cordova Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:13 a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Behrens-Wu: Non-Developers Are Essential Decision-Makers for API Products
“While it's API first, there are also other stakeholders in the company that are important in the decision-making process or buying process that need to be involved. And not everyone knows how to integrate an API.”
Laura Behrens-Wu Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:00 a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mariotti: Fortune 500 APIs Fail When Treated as Brand Ego Projects
“You have giant Fortune 500 that thought that way, and just because they're the ego of the brand, but they never went anywhere, nobody used their APIs. Just because they think like an afterthought or a satellite thing, rather than the future.”
Augusto Marietti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:48 a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gil: Dozen billion-dollar companies will be created by API-ifying internal software
“I still think there's a dozen billion dollar plus companies to be created where you're just taking something that everybody's building internally over and over again, and you're just turning it into an API.”
Elad Gil Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:07 a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
Jan 17, 2019
Assertion Supported
Sethi: Cancer pathology data remains inaccessible through standard electronic health APIs
“A lot of the cancer information is in the pathology report which doesn't come out of APIs yet.”
Anil Sethi Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 16:01 a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
Jul 31, 2019 positive
Insight
Yoo: EHR interoperability gaps create opportunities for API startups
“And what I'm referring to there is really the laying down of electronic health records in the provider market and many of the core systems on the payer side that are creating these systems of record that are very good at storing data. What they're not so great…”
Julie Yoo Jul 31, 2019 ▶ 2:42 Software Eats Care Delivery
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Bot-to-bot interactions will drive adoption of standardized customer service APIs
“And especially when there's bots on both sides, now we can finally say, well, let's do an API on both sides, or let's do something smart.”
Vijay Pande Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 54:29 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Dec 28, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Fine-tuning access makes GPT-4 easy to exploit into bad behavior
“It's actually super easy to exploit an API. It's super easy, especially if you have fine tuning access to make GPT-IV behave in a very bad way.”
Arthur Mensch Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 22:55 Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
Mar 15, 2025
Insight
Kumar: Voice cloning and prompting alone cannot create great AI personalities
“It takes more than just sort of, you know, voice clone plus change the prompt. Now you have a new character that's just as good as it would be if you spent a lot of time on it. It takes, I think today making a great personality voice interface system, we can't…”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 39:13 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kumar: Sesame is not building an API or developer-facing product
“We are not a developer facing business. We're not making an API.”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 19:05 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
Mar 21, 2025
Insight
Rocha: Build MCP servers around core use cases, not full API spec
“Don't start through, like via the API, like just grabbing your open API spec and generating an MCP server. No, start from the use case. What are people actually doing with your product? And then you build, like, you don't need full coverage of your API, just t…”
Zeno Rocha Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 34:57 Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
Jun 26, 2025
Insight
Jain: Healthcare enterprises find updating IVRs easier than building external APIs
“The reality is for some large enterprises, it's easier to update their IVR systems than it is to create an API, go through info security, and expose an API to an external party because they've never done that.”
Ankit Jain Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 13:59 Can AI Solve Healthcare's Urgent Workforce Challenges? w/ Ankit Jain
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: AI prompts are programs for an undocumented, error-tolerant API
“Prompts are tiny programs, which is more common today, but I think, yeah, at least I articulated it went viral a while ago, and, but they're programs in a hidden API. Because normally you have an API that is fully documented, but very error intolerant, right? …”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 25:46 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Companies cannot build AI without an API-first architecture
“I think you cannot do AI if you're not API first. It's just, you don't have the mouth and the ears to a model.”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 30:57 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI agents will consume the internet via APIs, rendering UIs secondary
“Agents are going to consume internet in a very different way than how human did. There's not any more websites, scroll, click, up and down applications. They're going to be there, but not as relevant as before. Agents are going to programmatically exchange lab…”
Augusto Marietti Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 27:56 How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Nov 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sherman Wu: OpenAI prices its API services using a cost-plus model
“Internally, one thing we do is, is we always make sure that we actually price our usage-based pricing from a, like, cost-plus perspective. Like, we're actually just, like, trying to make sure that we're being responsible from a margin perspective.”
Sherman Wu Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 32:45 How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
Jul 7, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Amble: Postgres and APIs cannot easily replace SAP's business logic
“Misconception right now is that you can just have, you know, Postgres database and APIs, and then bam, like you can replace SAP. That's like absolutely not true. That piece around the logic and everything else that is in captured in SAP is way, way more import…”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 0:32 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
Jul 7, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Amble: Workday limits third-party API access and documentation
“Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually, like, get access to the documentation and work with the, like, and they don't expose all the endpoints.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 49:36 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
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