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Feb 9, 2026 
Anish Acharya, a16z general partner and former founder who scaled products at Credit Karma, joins to debate whether SaaS is overhyped and how AI agents break legacy lock-in. He contrasts incumbents and startups in AI distribution, explains why developer tools resemble cloud markets, and predicts many niche winners like legal and support as AI expands adoption.
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Agents Bundle Customer Workflows
- Models let companies conflate support, sales, collections and operations into a single automated workflow for CAC improvement.
- Bundling these tasks can unlock far more productivity than simply cutting support costs.
Big Markets Yield Many Winners
- Many large markets labeled as 'one market' are actually industries with room for dozens of specialized winners.
- Anish uses legal as an example where multiple verticalized companies will thrive rather than a single monopolist.
Favor Series A For Clearer Signals
- Prioritize investing at Series A where shipped product and sales provide clearer signals versus seed uncertainty.
- Anish says Series A balances information and entry price, reducing false positives from pure ideas.