Whether you're an investor or entrepreneur, the most important thing to start with is to look for these forces, to look for these exponential forces.

You can do all sorts of tactical product things, everything else, but these forces are going to overwhelm you for better or worse.

How intentional do you think you have to be as a founder about building, like you're building a tool.

Do you have to be sort of thinking about the network a priori?

Or can the network sort of emerge?

Because in AI so far, we've seen a lot of tools and not a lot of networks.

What's your instinct?

Welcome to Web 3 with A16Z Crypto.

Today's episode digs into the forces shaping the next generation of consumer software,

from AI-driven tools to the new economics of apps.

Joining is Chris Dixon, A16Z crypto founder and managing partner and one of the firm's original consumer investors.

He sits down with A16Z general partner, Anisha Charya, to explore how exponential forces, like Moore's law, composability, and network effects, help determine which products ultimately win.

They talk about what it takes to build enduring consumer apps, how tools evolve into networks, and whether open source AI can help keep technology democratized.

Here's a niche to kick it off.

Welcome to the A16Z ConsumerPod. I'm super excited and honored to have my partner Chris Dixon here today.

You know, Chris, you're probably best known for your work in Web 3 in network

economies recently, but what folks may not know is that you've led a lot of the most important

consumer investments at Andreessen Horowitz and prior, you also founded two consumer companies.

I thought a fun place to start would be networks. That feels like the first place you really

cut your teeth. So maybe talk about your investments in Stack Overflow, Pinterest, Instagram,

and how you generally think about consumer networks. So many of the most important internet

services are networks, right? Going back to the early internet email and the worldwide web,

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