The a16z Show · Saturday, September 12, 2026
Anisha Acharya suggests that company building is evolving towards creating 'loops,' where AI handles repeatable tasks, and humans contribute judgment and innovation. He believes this shift will allow for greater ambition in company goals, contrasting with the past where overly ambitious ideas were often rejected.
“Do you have this interesting take that company building more and more is going to become this kind of series of creating loops. We're gonna see this sort of cascading set of everything from a loop per person to loops that can run large parts of the company.”
“The loop will help you climb to the local maxima, but then it plateaus. You need human intuition. You need somebody to actually help you land at the base of the next hill.”
“In the old days, three years ago, we would see a company and if what they were trying to do was too ambitious, we would, you know, not engage. Today, we're almost in the opposite problem. An idea that's too small is not something that we want to engage with.”