enterprise

also referred to as: enterprises

24 statements across 21 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 20 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Dixon · across every show →

Everything said about enterprise, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Dixon: Enterprise applications will lead consumer adoption in wearable tech
“I think there's a reasonable chance that you'll see the corporate use cases leading Like, unlike what we've seen over the last 15 years in technology, which is the consumer has led the enterprise. You know, the stuff you have at home on your iPhone and Gmail i…”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:43 a16z Podcast | The Wearables Session
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Preventing initial network intrusion in companies over 24 employees is impossible
“No enterprise with more than a couple dozen people is gonna keep the bad guys from first getting a foothold in their network. That's impossible.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Lawson: Developer marketing pairs consumer acquisition funnels with enterprise spending power
“I often say the developer market is like, you're doing customer acquisition like a consumer business. Like a massive funnel. Right, lots of developers coming, kicking the tires, like a consumer business, but unlike any other consumer business, they have the ab…”
Jeff Lawson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:17 a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Waters: Open source is now a required buying criterion for enterprise IT initiatives
“Open source is now both a necessary part of almost any major software company strategy because it's a buying criteria that, you know, enterprises have for major new initiatives.”
James Waters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:56 a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Most enterprises have moved nearly all applications to browsers
“And so now what's happened is we've reached a point where most enterprises have moved all of their applications, except for very, very few, to the browser.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:26 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Insight
Chen: Viral software products inevitably shift toward enterprise sales
“Virally spreading products end up going, tilting towards enterprise over time for a really simple reason, which is that With larger companies, your cohorts will look better because there's revenue expansion.”
Andrew Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:24 a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
Apr 13, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Naus: Automation will force enterprise middle managers to become operational analysts
“Everybody is going to end up becoming more of an analyst in that sense in the enterprise.”
Jad Naus Apr 13, 2019 ▶ 6:22 The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
Sep 25, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: a16z sees zero generative AI traction in large enterprises
“Every company that has traction is in a category like selling to developers, or selling to consumers, or maybe selling to, like, small kinds of, you know, law firms or these. Kinds of things, but we haven't seen anybody with any traction in the enterprise.”
Ben Horowitz Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 0:37 AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
Sep 24, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: Massive enterprise data migrations via consulting firms yield no results
“They pay consulting firms tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars to do these data migrations. And it's, you know, even after that, no change in results.”
Alexandr Wang Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 24:15 Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
Sep 24, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Wang: Almost every enterprise can meaningfully boost stock price with AI
“There's latent potential for almost every enterprise to implement AI at a level that would meaningfully boost their stock price.”
Alexandr Wang Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 20:03 Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
Dec 25, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kirwin: Interactive 3D and Gaming Will Define Enterprise Tech in the 2020s
“The nineties was about text on the internet. The 2000 was about images. The 20 tens was about video, and we feel pretty strongly that the 20 twenties is going to be about interactive three D and gaming technology being used in the enterprise.”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future
Feb 28, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Webster: Enterprises should delay deploying DeepSeek until stable alternatives emerge
“The excitement around it is well warranted, but I think in an enterprise or infrastructure context, I would probably wait for something that is more stable and then doesn't have these questions hanging over it.”
Ian Webster Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 14:42 How to use DeepSeek safely
May 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clark: Enterprises avoid high-value AI use cases due to unwieldy risk
“We see some firms attacking the low hanging fruit internal chatbots to like ask questions about HR because they're afraid to take that leap to develop the difficult problem because it's so unwieldy and there is so much risk associated with it. A lot of the mos…”
Scott Clark May 23, 2025 ▶ 36:19 Building AI Systems You Can Trust
Jun 6, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Anish Acharya: Voice is the primary AI insertion point for the enterprise
“It feels like voice is the AI insertion point for the enterprise period.”
Anish Acharya Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 23:06 The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
Jun 10, 2025
Insight
Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI adoption hinges on data security and auditability
“Two key things that they care about is, how do you guarantee that my data is safe and secure? So that's number one. And second is, how do you give me auditability and predictability? That's the two more, like if you boil down to all their questions, they event…”
Anant Bhardwaj Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 20:15 Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
Jun 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Bhardwaj: Enterprises reject black-box AI decisions without clear step-by-step explainability
“Nobody wants, like, AI making a decision, even if it is correct, if they cannot Explain here are the set of steps that it took, because if something wrong happened, they have to explain, because in human world you can explain.”
Anant Bhardwaj Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 20:34 Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: Enterprise AI adoption will outpace the cloud computing transition
“AI is going to take over the enterprise. We know this is going to happen, and it needs to happen to us faster than it happens to our competitors, which is a totally different dynamic than we saw with cloud.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
Aug 26, 2025
Insight
Ben Scharfstein says enterprise AI lags public state-of-the-art by 18 months
“And I would say it was probably like an 18 month lag between what you see on Twitter and what's the state of the art and what is actually working in enterprises.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 3:14 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Scharfstein: Enterprise AI shift demands forward-deployed engineering for custom software
“And what we're seeing now with this platform shift is enterprises still need all of that customization. They need all of the feature set, but it doesn't exist in the software and doesn't exist anywhere. And so that's the value of this forward deployed motion i…”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 11:01 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Dec 1, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fradin: Enterprise AI tool adoption is lower than commonly believed
“The usage on these tools in the enterprise is less than People would think today”
Russ Fraden Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 11:06 The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Insight
Schrader: SMBs lack dedicated staff to operate software tools
“A huge difference between SMBs in general and enterprises is that in SMBs there's nobody to use the tools. Like you can build a tool, but there's nobody sitting there that's going to use it.”
Frederick Schrader Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 18:21 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
Aug 12, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: Board-level urgency driving enterprise AI adoption mandates will inevitably end
“There are AI Boards at every enterprise right now saying like, here's what we need to buy and we need to do it by X period of time. And that surely will go away, but there is this moment of like crazy, you know, kinetic energy inside of big companies.”
Joe Schmidt Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 11:52 Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Insight
Acharya: Enterprises should always pay for frontier models in unbounded jobs
“We really think that the kind of rational architecture and the one that is emerging is that for jobs that have unlimited upside, like sales or product, you always want to use frontier tokens. And the reason for that is you just don't know what the value of the…”
Anish Acharya Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 7:06 The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
Aug 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Casado: Large AI labs subsidize consumer tiers while extracting enterprise margins
“So very classically, if you view your competitive set, say the large labs will basically subsidize or give away the single surf tier. But then they actually have, they command great margins in third party and they command great margins in the enterprise.”
Martin Casado Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 22:48 How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
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