Distribution moat startup VC 2026: how AI collapsing software costs has made audience-building and go-to-market strategy the primary defensibility signal for venture-backed founders, and why marketing roles are gaining status and engineering-style tit…

Aaron Levie spent a week in April visiting dozens of IT and AI leaders across banking, retail, healthcare, and media.What Levie’s dispatches offer VCs is something most market research cannot: ground-level signal on where the friction actually sits.

“AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.” is the name of a heavily quoted article by Sam Lessin of Slow Ventures. What is the thesis? The economists tracking AI’s labor displacement have the wrong scoreboard. The real casualty is not jobs but…

Gary Tan reveals how to leverage the harness in order to achieve 10-100x productivity gains with the same AI model.

What problems are behind the emerging Saaspocalypse – the dominance of AI labs may mean that the B2B users will lose their edge.

Marc Andreessen of a16z sees a scenario where AI will not cut jobs but instead, AI Productivity Will Trigger A Hiring Boom

Venture capital emerging managers marketing strategy 2026: why specificity, transparency, and building in public beat content volume for fund managers competing against a16z and Benchmark.

Most people judging AI are using the wrong product. Here’s why enterprise coding agents and consumer chatbots are different markets – and who wins each.

AI adoption is an organizational design problem, not a technology procurement challenge. The question every founder and executive should be able to answer without looking anything up: what is the last workflow your team changed because of AI, and who …

The productivity gains from artificial intelligence are not showing up where most companies are looking for them.