At the end of 2022, our team at A16V has dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023.

Emerging from this exercise came literally 40-plus builder-worthy pursuits for the year.

And that ranged from entertainment franchise games to precision delivery of medicines,

small modular reactors, and of course of the AI applications.

And in this two-part series, we'll be covering 12 of those big ideas.

In today's part one, we'll cover ideas spanning consumer,

AI, games, and enterprise, featuring the voices and big ideas of Connie

Chan, Anne Lee Skates, Jack Soslow, Doug McCracken, Sarah Wang, and Samit Singh.

In these conversations you'll hear several important themes including how physical transfers to digital,

what the next wave of AI might look like, and specifically what role fault tolerance might play in this equation,

what we can learn about social commerce from the east, and what

role the growing number of bots in our lives might play.

All right, let's get to it.

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For more details please see A16.com slash disclosures. Let's start with Connie. The big idea is around social commerce. So social commerce,

discovery commerce, video commerce, these trends are inevitable and 2023 will be

the year it all becomes obvious. Social platforms will become a natural

place for product discovery and platforms will seek to ease the friction between

inspiration to purchase intent and finally the completed purchase transaction.

Whether it's short form, long form, or a live stream video is going to be a

fantastic way to sell things and teach consumers about a product's value proposition.

This will birth an entirely new ecosystem where anyone can become a seller, and new companies can

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