Angela Strange
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. On 2 shows, 19 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she invests primarily in financial services, insurance modernization, and AI applications. She previously led product initiatives at Google—including Chrome for Android and iOS—following Google's acquisition of startup Ruba.
2shows
19appearances
194statements
54resolved
29supported
8contradicted
54%fully supported
10said about them ↓ Everything Angela Strange said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Strange: Nearly every company will become a financial services company
“And that's because in the not too distant future, nearly every company will be a financial services company and get a significant portion of their revenue from financial services.”
Strange: Financial institutions will drop legacy software for AI competitors by 2026
“My big idea for twenty-twenty-six is there will be a dramatic turning point coming to financial services and insurance, where finally the risk of not replacing legacy systems will exceed the risk of change. It's already happening. Major institutions will let l…”
Angela Strange: Next-gen fintech winners will be 10x larger by capturing labor
“The new winners here will be 10 X bigger. Not only because those software categories are bigger, but because software is able to consume a lot of the labor that humans didn't want to do anyways, or that banks or insurance companies couldn't hire for fast enoug…”
Strange: AI agents could increase software revenue 10x
“You know, is that going to increase software revenue two X? It could potentially increase it 10 X.”
Strange: Regulation will become software code in 2025
“In 20, 25 regulation is going to become code.”
Strange: Every white-collar worker will eventually have an AI copilot
“I believe that every white-collar worker eventually is going to have a copilot, and some of those roles will be replaced by agents.”
Angela Strange: Customers Are Replacing 20-Year-Old Actimize Software with Sardine
“So for instance, Sardine is a company that's got a much more modern transaction monitoring system, and they are seeing customers rip and replace Actomize that's been around for 20 years.”
Strange: LLMs will automatically translate legacy COBOL code into modern languages
“You can imagine a world where LLMs get so good that you could feed in large portions of code written in COBOL, And they would spit out the same amount of code or the same functionality of said code in a different language, you know, and we're not there yet, bu…”
Strange: Fintech is default local, unlike global software platforms
“I often say that fintech is default local versus default global, and what do I mean by that? I wouldn't invest in Google for Canada, Google for Brazil, Google for France, like, that's just Google, but I would invest in a bank for each of those reasons, regions…”
Strange: Every financial services company will spin out a fintech
“And now I called this talk from marble to code, but I could have called it that every financial services company will spin out a fintech company.”
Regional Copycats Are Superior Businesses When Local Barriers Create Defensibility
“So I'd flip it as, you know, X For why, if it makes even more sense in that geography with the local flavor, is a better business.”
Local LATAM Fintechs Hold Head Start Over International Entrants
“So any new international player is going to have to go through that same experience, and the local team is going to have a very, very big head start.”
Soaring Round Valuations Are Justified for Market Category Winners
“And if you think that they can be number one, maybe even number two across very, very large categories, then it probably looks expensive at the time, but not so expensive in retrospect.”
Strange: Every consumer and business company will embed financial services
“Similarly, we are going to see, and we are already seeing, an explosion of financial services. Which is new neobanks, new, directly new fintech companies, but then more to the point, all of these consumer companies, all of these business companies are adding f…”
Strange: Large, profitable businesses will serve the bottom 25% of the economy
“I believe that there are large for-profit businesses that consumers will love that are still to be built that are going to serve the bottom 25% of the economy.”
Strange: 80% of attendee companies will offer financial services within five years
“I believe that if no one in this room changes jobs five years from now, that number will be closer to 80%.”
Strange: Most financial innovation will come from non-financial companies
“A great majority of it, I think, will come from companies that are adding financial services for the very first time.”
Strange: "Fake it till you make it" in fintech leads to jail
“Fake it until you can make it, and financial services will land you in jail, versus some of the others.”
Strange: Every company will eventually become a fintech company
“So every company can be a fintech company.”
Strange: UK Checking Accounts Generate £8B in Hidden Annual Costs
“Checking accounts, which are advertised as free, account for it's eight billion of costs, and that's just in the UK.”
Strange: Country-specific diaspora networks are more powerful than elite university alumni
“The alumni networks around the top schools are incredibly powerful. I might argue that the international country-specific diasporas are even more powerful. They just often lacked the sort of organization.”
Strange: AI adoption raised mortgage servicing margins from 5% to 50%
“And those companies in some areas like mortgage servicing have been able to turn areas of their business from five percent margin businesses to 50% margin businesses.”
Strange: Bundling AI labor with software eases enterprise sales in regulated sectors
“So now an interesting wedge in is we'll provide you with all of these agents. And oh, by the way, we also have a much better transaction monitoring system that is actually gonna fix the problem. So this labor plus software bundle also helps the sales process a…”
The other half of the tape: Angela Strange's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 6 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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20VC 9
the a16z Podcast 1
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures
- 20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 5 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| a16zLEDGER | General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 17 +3 | 151 | 50% 19/38 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| 20VCLEDGER | General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 43 | 63% 10/16 | full record on 20VC → |