Moore: a16z favors investing in startups that run operations AI-first
Olivia Moore · AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore · Mar 12, 2026 · at 38:11
Olivia Moore, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how a16z evaluates startups using modern AI workflows and coding assistants to run their operations.
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“I think there's like a little bit of a happy medium, but more, we get more excited when a company is kind of more AI first in terms of the tools they use. The reason I don't say like, A hundred percent AI all the time is because the tools aren't perfect yet, so I've heard cases of like, my junior engineers are just cloud coding everything, and then we ship it, and then it breaks, and there's a lot of issues but I think in general with how fast the tools are kind of compounding and improving, like, I use it for a lot of my work. There was a period of time where I would double check every single number, every single stat manually, and like, the accuracy rate is fantastic and has only gotten better and better, And so I think we'll be even more excited about companies that are AI first and how they run themselves.”
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