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Seema Amble

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz · 11 appearances on the record.

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Seema Amble is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz focusing on enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and fintech. She also hosts the firm's My First 16 video and podcast series, examining early go-to-market strategies.

23statements → 15claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.78/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 11 not checkable as stated how the 15 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 12 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 15 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 11 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Seema argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

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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How they sound: speaking style how? →

271 words/min while actually speaking · 28.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Seema Amble: only 2 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 18,588 words across 10 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Seema Amble said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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
Opinion
Amble: Legacy software incumbents will fail to build great AI agents
“I'm not bullish on the incumbent software building great agents on top.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 50:26 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amble: Marketing content creation and tracking will be automated within two years
“And then I think in the next year or two, a lot more of this content is going to be generated on a more automated, fast basis. And the like measurement and collection of the of the performance will all be collected and done on an automated basis.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:08 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Assertion Partly supported
Amble: Salesforce Headless 360 is merely a rebranding of existing APIs
“I don't, from what I can tell, nothing actually changed. Their three 60 product was the same APIs that had always been exposed, now rebranded as their three 60 product.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 4:00 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amble: A top-20 accounting firm is prepared to spend $500M on software
“One of the firms we talked to, it's a top-twenty firm, they were ready to spend up to five hundred million dollars either building or acquiring software.”
Seema Amble Dec 17, 2024 ▶ 6:31 How AI Will Transform Accounting: A $100B Opportunity Explained
Insight
Seema Amble: Enterprise Teams May Trust Audited AI Over Humans
“And I think we're getting to that point where people are realizing, wait a second, if I can review and audit all the actions before they go out and it's faster and I can get results, like maybe I can trust them more than the humans.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 5:54 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Insight
Amble: Software value shifts to data and logic in agentic architectures
“The UI doesn't matter because the agent isn't accessing the software via the UI. We could unpack whether the UI matters or not, but in the idea of it, that being headless is the data, the Logic, everything stored below it is really where the value is, not just…”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 2:48 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amble: B2B companies are increasingly merging sales and marketing functions
“One of the biggest shifts we're seeing in B to B companies is the trend of sales and marketing coming together.”
Seema Amble Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:09 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Insight
Amble: AI shifts marketing from one-to-many to many-to-many
“Now we can start creating way more content and really matching the content and to the individual. So instead of it being, you know, a message of like, you know, one to many, it's a many to many relationship which is really exciting to see.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 2:41 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amble: AI will shift marketing roles from doers to reviewers
“The first shift we're going to see is the shift from being the doer. So I'm not writing the email, but I'm reviewing the email. So doer to reviewer.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:00 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Insight
Seema Amble: Agencies Will Shift from Generation to Strategic Direction
“It's like, well, the agency can be helping you on direction versus versus the actual generation of the content.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 6:20 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amble: SMBs are driving the earliest adoption of AI marketing agents
“The agent is starting to take on more of the end to end tasks, especially where we're seeing this the most is on the SMB side. And why is that? So SMBs typically are spending a lot on marketing agencies because they don't have marketers internally, or they may…”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 6:40 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Insight
Amble: Enterprise AI agent adoption lags due to higher quality standards
“As you get to more enterprise customers, a level of quality matters a lot more. And so I think they're probably a little more hesitant. And they've got, you know, organizationally, they have big, big teams. They're relying on certain processes. It's a change i…”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 7:16 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amble: AI marketing automation layer will emerge to orchestrate software tools
“There is going to be an automation layer that's built and it's either going to plug into a bunch of individual tools or perhaps one of the tool players will end up taking this on and, you know, allowing the orchestration between between tools or across tools, …”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 9:03 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Seema Amble: Generative AI tools currently accrue value directly to marketers
“I think these tools, especially in the near term are very like creating huge uplifts in terms of like conversion and time for the marketers. And I think the value is really accruing to the marketers for at least for now.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 10:40 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amble: Notion users are more tech-savvy builders than Salesforce users
“Notion users tend, you know, all things being equal, are more, I'd say, tech-savvy and more agentic as builders”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 4:57 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
Disclosure
Amble: Incoming sales VPs routinely mandate adopting Salesforce
“When, like, new VPs of sales come into our companies, they, they're like, they mandate that Salesforce is there because they're used to using it, their teams are used to using it.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 10:43 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
Assertion Supported
a16z's Sima: Gusto is valued at nearly $10B with 300,000 businesses
“Gusto is valued at almost ten billion dollars and serves over 300,000 businesses by simplifying payroll, benefits, and HR.”
Seema Amble Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 0:44 How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
Assertion Supported
Seema Amble: Annual US marketing spend exceeds $500 billion
“And I think, you know, there's well north of like five hundred billion dollars in the US alone spent on marketing, and that number is growing.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 0:53 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Early B2B Fintech Founders Most Frequently Ask About Initial Customer Acquisition
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amble: Early B2B fintech founders most frequently ask about customer acquisition
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
Assertion Not checkable as stated
B2B FinTech founders' top concern is customer acquisition and trust
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Nov 14, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund

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Appearances (11)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show Jul 7, 2026 19m
Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales Jun 19, 2025 3m
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz Dec 13, 2024 8m
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 5m
How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London Dec 5, 2024 5m
How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales Nov 21, 2024 8m
Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov Dec 12, 2023 6m
Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret Dec 5, 2023 6m
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner Nov 28, 2023 7m
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher Nov 21, 2023 8m
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund Nov 14, 2023 7m
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