Martin Casado
General Partner at a16z, former founder and enterprise infrastructure expert.
- The Race to Recursive Self-Improving AI
- Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise
- Hardware is eating the world, too
- 20VC_ The AI Bubble Is Wrong _ AI Margins Need to Improve _ Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern _ Why People Over-Estimate Open Models But Enterprises Still Fear Frontier Models with Aaron Katz,
- The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age
- 20VC_ SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN _ Stripe's $8BN OpenRouter Bet _ Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600BN in Revenue_ _ Lovable and Higgsfield Raise Mega Rounds
- Axios Pro Rata_ Director dispute
- Judge Hits Pause on Paramount Skydance's $110B Acquisition of Warner Bros.
- AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
- AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
- AI Inside the Enterprise
“Mr. Martin Casado is making us look bad because the man has had OpenRouter. Obviously, last night had Feifei with World Labs and then he had Cursor.”
Source→“by dollar, open source is like 5%... but by token count, it's over 60%.”
Source→“a16z's new $1.1B Machine Age Fund explicitly targets chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers, robotics, and home AI appliances — the full physical stack underlying AI.”
Source→“I met with Martin Casado at Andreessen who's a friend of mine and I would have loved to have him involved.”
Source→“You would ask these questions during the Microsoft days. Why wouldn't Microsoft do this? This is a very natural law of markets.”
Source→“AI is a general term that goes back 70 years in computer science formally... it's got a lot of baggage, either from science fiction or from Nick Bostrom who wrote about it.”
Source→“The move to the internet, this is where we've got Cisco and Juniper.”
Source→“You can throw money at the problem. And you can throw money at almost any problem. And that works. And so that is just completely different than anything we've ever lived through.”
Source→“What Grokbot got really right is, no, how about it just actually an employee? So now you have this thing that's an entity... it has its own computer and it has its own browser.”
Source→“What Grokbot got really right is, no, how about it just actually an employee? So now you have this thing that's an entity... it has its own computer and it has its own browser.”
Source→“One of the greatest legacies of Elon towards this is, of course, he's created these great companies, but the amount of entrepreneurs that have come out of SpaceX that are changing the entire industrial complex may be even greater legacy than the companies themselves.”
Source→“They see the frontier labs wanting their compute... the labs are inking deals with companies before they actually have hardware available.”
Source→“Even in the mega data centers, which by the way was largely driven by the incumbent cloud providers verticalizing, you saw the arising of Arista.”
Source→“The move to the internet, this is where we've got Cisco and Juniper.”
Source→“"Individual VCs claiming deals, he told us, is 'a historical relic' of a bygone era in tech investing."”
Source→“Andreessen's on the board of Databricks and they're also on the board of Fivetran, right? And now they're competitors. So now this has been percolating and now they're investigating.”
Source→“It's specifically interested in the firm's directorates at Databricks (Ben Horowitz) and Fivetran (Martin Casado).”
Source→“Tech luminaries like Yann LeCun and Martin Casado [argued] that open software can accelerate innovation and coexist with proprietary projects.”
Source→“I actually churned off Nanoclaw onto Nanobot, which is what I've stuck with. But I use it to manage my tennis team... It has its own email. It's got its own WhatsApp number, its own email address.”
Source→“We'll actually have an HR and that HR team will onboard AIs as they come. They will train them... They'll be part of teams. They'll join the Slack, just like humans do.”
Source→“Go and ask Martin Casado what he thinks. I don't know. I mean, he doesn't know either. He probably has a better way of saying he doesn't know than I do.”
Source→“We'll actually have an HR. HR, and that HR team will onboard AIs as they come. They will train them. They will show them the access to the documents that you need. They'll be part of teams. They'll join the Slack, just like humans do.”
Source→“Instead of viewing AI as software, like just view it as a user... take your product, make it a CLI tool, and then have the AI be an agent that actually uses this... This is a very, very significant architectural and mental shift.”
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