Eric Vishria
General Partner, Benchmark · 4 appearances on the record.
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Vishria focuses on early-stage venture investments in artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software at Benchmark. Earlier in his career, he served as VP of Marketing at Opsware and was the co-founder and CEO of Rockmelt until its acquisition by Yahoo.
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Everything Eric Vishria said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Appearances (4)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z | Mar 20, 2026 | 2m |
| Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy | Aug 4, 2025 | 4m |
| AI Content and the War for Your Attention | Jul 30, 2025 | 1m |
| How Fei-Fei Li Is Rebuilding AI for the Real World | Jun 4, 2025 | 1m |
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Eric Vishria was played rather than Eric taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software | May 28, 2025 | 21s | clip played |