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Coding agents remove execution overhead, making agency and taste more important than ever.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Anduril went directly to Quantico, Camp Pendleton, National Defense University, and the CIA instead of relying on mainstream technology press.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
SaaS pricing is shifting from charging for users to charging for software-mediated transactions.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
A tiny targeted channel can outperform mass media when you need only a handful of elite machine-learning engineers.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Some very small companies may reach roughly $15 million ARR in four months using a few hundred reusable agent skill files.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Software’s competitive shift is moving from graphical interfaces for people toward APIs built for systems to interact.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Going direct does not require extroversion or charisma. It requires unshakeable belief in a coherent idea.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Business workflows are moving from human mediation to software that gathers data, analyzes it, and returns decisions instantly.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
After solving a difficult task, turn the solution into reusable instructions, code, and tests that can run again.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
The next software shift is profound: businesses are becoming encoded in software, not merely using it.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Find the specific people whose opinions matter, learn where they get information, and communicate there.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Code is no longer precious. Software can be disposable, changing what deserves serious investment.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
APIs are Lego-like building blocks developers combine to encode business processes and assemble applications.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
The strongest business loops change how the business operates with every output, not just complete one task.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Founders need narrative sovereignty: control over the stories and explanations that shape their company’s destiny.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Intermediaries distort unconventional ideas most severely when messages pass through someone else’s worldview and incentives.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
SaaS gains marketplace defensibility, marketplaces gain SaaS traits, and the combination can create winner-take-most moats.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
AI coding tools are making solo founding more viable, though co-founders still win when everything else is equal.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
An agent combines memory, retrieval, and data access so one person can reason over far more information than humans can unaided.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
A strong manifesto makes its future so vivid people sacrifice jobs, family, security, and comfort to create it.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Gen 1 SaaS charges by seats. Twilio and Stripe charge by transaction volume.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
A good manifesto is a magnet: once people see it, they cannot get it out of their heads.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Stripe’s interface became a building block that lets developers add global payment acceptance directly to their applications.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Agents extend a leader’s awareness beyond one person’s head with direct operational evidence, not just opinions.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Design agentic systems by finding bottlenecks, then instructing agents to create software or documentation that removes them.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
When mainstream access and allies are missing, direct communication lets an organization create its own stories and distribution.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
API-driven automation can turn a multi-week, labor-intensive loan process into a fast, real-time operation.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Use every model to build trivial projects. They become a chassis for catching up with fast-moving technology.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Software can Moneyball judgment-heavy business functions by turning qualitative decisions into measurable, data-driven processes.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
The strongest product narrative describes what users become or accomplish after adoption, not what the product contains.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
An API can be a product’s primary consumption vehicle without replacing its graphical interface. Stripe illustrates the hybrid model.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
AI erases the API line by letting agents communicate with software through real-time, machine-readable exchanges.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
An outsider can turn a founder’s tangled thoughts into one phrase that reveals the idea’s core.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
APIs are a competitive frontier because software products must exchange data, call functions, and integrate across software ecosystems.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Keep agent knowledge reliable by tracking provenance, resolving conflicts, and running recurring accuracy sweeps.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
The same facts lead to radically different conclusions when they are framed as different stories.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Pursuing a startup idea against overwhelming opposition requires insane confidence that your perception of truth is right.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Shared SaaS data can become a network effect when customers see anonymized peer benchmarks and make better operating choices.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
SaaS was once valued by a 10–20x next-twelve-month revenue multiple. That rule is no longer sacred.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
In a world flooded with synthetic communication, distinctiveness is how you cut through noise and build a movement.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Stripe Radar shows the promise of cross-customer SaaS intelligence: one customer’s fraud signals help protect others.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Falling inference costs unlock ambitious consumer AI products by making free-to-try software economically viable.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Explain a company through the merchant’s dream it enables, while the product becomes ambient infrastructure.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Decisions improve when you look at reality directly instead of following fashionable narratives, investor maps, or prevailing opinion.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
When software talks to software, APIs replace the human-facing graphical interface.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Going direct works without traditional charisma when a founder’s belief in the idea is intense and unassailable.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Every SaaS and marketplace entrepreneur should study the other model for design ideas that improve their own business.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Making software and films accessible does not guarantee broader participation. The original minority may remain the primary users.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Product development is becoming measurable as usage data reveals what drives retention and churn, beyond surveys and focus groups.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
A movement’s fighting spirit can stay constant even as its tactics and audience change.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Do not dismiss work because it looks unimportant at first. Important work often starts that way.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
Self-serve software replaces expensive sales-led distribution with lower-cost marketing-led acquisition, making smaller businesses economically reachable.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
People join apparently crazy projects when a founder they trust personally asks them to take the leap.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
AI’s major social transformation could take roughly 20 years as institutions absorb new expectations.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
The right “bicycle of the mind” preserves complexity while making an explanation immediately understandable.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
@blas
Cheaper software creation and micro-adoption triggered a Cambrian explosion of SaaS targeting nearly every repeated function inside organizations.
Invest Like The BestEric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
@blas
Bureaucracy and institutional slowness could be society’s shock absorber as AI-driven change accelerates.
The a16z ShowGarry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
@blas
People rally around leaders who visibly do what followers feel ashamed or unwilling to do themselves.
David SenraLulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra

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