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The a16z Show · Friday, July 31, 2026

Enterprise AI Adoption Slowed by Inertia and Risk Assessment

Jesse Zheng explains that despite the desire to adopt new AI use cases, enterprises move slowly due to inertia, model risk, governance, and security considerations. This often leads to a phased approach where only a few use cases are implemented at a time.

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And even right now in our experience, enterprises have a lot of desire to move, but they only do some use cases at once.
Jesse Zheng
There is inertia there and you have to go through all the model risk, governance, and all the security things.
Jesse Zheng
And so I think it will take time.
Jesse Zheng
Heard on The a16z Show — “How Enterprise AI Really Gets Deployed, published Friday, July 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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