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a16z's Martin Casado: for the first time in tech history, you can give 20 people $1B and…

Name: a16z's Martin Casado: for the first time in tech history, you can give 20 people $1B and…
Uploaded: 2026-11-06T16:16:16.000Z
Channel: Guillermo Flor
Description: a16z's Martin Casado: for the first time in tech history, you can give 20 people $1B and they'll actually use it. He calls it an industrial revolution. Casado, General Partner at a16z, sold his first company to VMware for $1.26B: 1. Software never scaled with money. Adding engineers made projects…

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a16z's Martin Casado: for the first time in tech history, you can give 20 people $1B and they'll actually use it. He calls it an industrial revolution. Casado, General Partner at a16z, sold his first company to VMware for $1.26B: 1. Software never scaled with money. Adding engineers made projects slower 2. Ten years ago, $1B for five founders would have sat idle or blown up the company 3. Today 20 people can turn $1B into compute, models and product 4. Anthropic and OpenAI raised more than the whole ecosystem built on top of them 5. Anything you can simulate on a computer, money and RL can

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