if you are NOT a morning person, SKIP THIS POST. if you are, congrats - some of the best events happen before 10am. Here are a few of our breakfast standouts (RSVP now… because i know morning people plan way ahead anyway): a16z Speedrun Startup Culture Brunch: https://lnkd.in/e42R6Sk7 Neuroscience of Audience Attention: CMO's Breakfast https://lnkd.in/eBSEvjwr AI Vertical SaaS Breakfast + Panel https://lnkd.in/eJadTRUE CIO & CTO Power Breakfast https://lnkd.in/etV7m3tX Deep Tech Investor Breakfast https://lnkd.in/effAUQaF
TECH WEEK by a16z
Technology, Information and Internet
Event submissions now open - Host an event on Partiful! tech-week.com/host. Up next --> SF: Oct 6-12
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a16z presents Tech Week 2025! 🗽 New York: June 2-8 🌁 San Francisco: Oct 6-12 🌴 Los Angeles: Oct 13-19
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🔆Kim G.
I help men and women build their “What’s Next” legacy—empowering those experiencing corporate burnout to navigate mindful transitions. | 35+ yrs…
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CEO at Hypemachine and Harrold AI (PR for fintech, AI, and venture capital)
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I host unforgettable startup events | Strategic Consultant | Building K-12 climate curriculum | Pre-seed stage angel investor with two $7M exits |…
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It’s Friday afternoon. You’re half-checked out, already thinking about weekend plans. Well, here’s what your weekend will look like in just three weeks. IF you’re in SF for Tech Week. 🌊 Saturday🌊 Start the day with a founder hike + pitch in Palo Alto Jump into brain optimization summits + AI hackathons Debate the future of AI in sports in SOMA Wrap the night with mixers + pitch-offs across the city 🌻 Sunday🌻 Morning walk through Golden Gate Park with the South Asian founder community Explore AI + magick experiments in SOMA Sit down for tea with women founders + strategists End the weekend at an AI film showcase or a panel on Middle East infra + US tech yep this can be your weekend in 3 weeks, now back to your inbox (or maybe our calendar? tech-week.com/calendar)
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Excited to have CodeRabbit as part of Tech Week 🐇🐇 They’re hosting an Agentic AI Hack Night this Friday at Shack15 -- dinner, good vibes and a ton of hacking on AI agents that make life easier (or more fun). You’ll see everything from automating the boring stuff to building something brand new. $35k+ in prizes are up for grabs!! Solo or team - come build, learn, and hang out with the community Also, spots are moving fast. If you’re in SF, grab your seat here: https://lnkd.in/e6HxmNqQ? Sahil M Bansal Harjot Gill
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The hardest problems make the strongest moats. Mortgage servicing. Money movement. Regulated infrastructure. Messy, high-stakes systems that most would avoid. Yet they’re where the biggest opportunities live. On Oct 8, join Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Andrew W. (Valon) and Wade Arnold (Moov) for a no-BS convo on why complexity is the ultimate advantage, and how AI is rewriting the playbook. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g-RcnP-R Ariel Brito Melanie Galang
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Last night, I hosted about 50 creators with the TECH WEEK by a16z team at a16z. We had Memelords, TikTokers, Youtubers, IG Creators & more. Here are 7 takeaways from dozens of conversations I had. 1. Everyone is building an email list Even the people who live and breathe TikTok or IG shorts are treating email as the backbone of their business. Some are using events to funnel new subscribers. Others are running paid ads, building lead magnets, or using ManyChat to turn IG DMs into list growth engines. The cadence doesn’t matter too much. Some post once a week, once a month, quarterly, or even sporadically. What matters is ownership. Every creator seemed to crave a direct, durable way to reach their audience that doesn’t depend on algorithm shifts. 2. IRL is hotter than ever Some of the creators have spent years building digital audiences, communities, and followers across platforms. Now, they’re finding ways to build IRL connections. Podcasters are hosting live recordings. Social creators are organizing private dinners, local meetups, and even retreats. These aren’t just “fan events”—they’re pipelines for deeper relationships, trust, and higher-value collaborations. The online → offline flywheel is strong. 3. Sponsorships are being packaged It seems people are moving away from the one-off ad model. Smart move imo. Packaging their newsletter + podcast + social feeds + IRL events into bundled sponsorships. This model is better for creators: more predictable revenue, fewer negotiations, long-term relationships, & better integration with audiences across platforms. And it’s better for brands: one relationship, multi-channel reach, lots of content that can be repurposed, more creative ways to partner vs the traditional boring ad slots. This shift feels like a maturation point for the industry. I love it. 4. Riches are in the niches The tighter the niche, the stronger the business. Like Yossi, who I recently had on my podcast and met in person yesterday for the first time. His total addressable audience? 155,000 car dealerships and their employees. That’s it. Yet he’s built a massive business because his content and products are laser-focused on his ICP. Most people think their niche is too small. But the truth is, if you carve it out well, it’s usually more valuable than you think. 5. Partnerships accelerate growth 1 + 1 = 3. Creators are leaning hard into collaborations. Newsletter swaps, podcast guest trades, joint events, and cross-promoting products. If you can find someone with a tangential audience, your growth compounds. It’s faster (and more fun) than trying to do everything solo. This is not new, but nice to see the collaboration happen in real time. More people are taking the “let’s make the pie bigger” approach. Find #6 & #7 in the comments. -- Re-share if you found this helpful. ♻️
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UPDATE: a new SF/LA milestone -- we've hit **1500** events in a single Tech Week. Kudos to all the hosts/organizers/etc and the a16z team putting it on. All the events are happening week of Oct 6. I'll be in town, and hosting a bunch of stuff on behalf of a16z. If you want to check out the calendar, here it is: https://lnkd.in/gg5PEpvW some other cool stats: - 24,000+ people have RSVPed already across SF and LA - over 70 a16z portcos participating with 100+ events - participating portcos: hedra, mistral AI, elevenlabs, deel, descript, replit, carta, stripe, mercury, hex, deel, pinecone, and more - ecosystem participation: openAI, Anthropic, perplexity, AWS - 7+ speedrun events (inc demo day!) This will be the largest SF/LA tech week yet and I think the reason is simple: After a big dispersion of talent during and right after lockdown, California is back. And while Norcal might create the technology products, but Socal will create the cultural products. How so? The AI wave has tapped into the deep Bay Area talent bench -- initially, AI researchers from the FAANG companies and young talent from stanford and berkeley. Of course, as the foundation model layer has settled, the next generation of AI startups can focus on the UX/app experience, enlisting the generations of mobile devs and consumer founders that just have to plug into the APIs. This has created a magnetic draw back to the west coast -- during/after lockdown, many folks moved to ski towns and into the mountains and so on, and to low tax areas. I'm seeing them all trickle back to the prior status quo, and for good reason. The AI wave is too big to ignore, and the people on the wave are all in SF and LA. LA has had its own thing going recently. It has the Gundo, a new geographical hotspot for defense, space tech, etc. SpaceX, Anduril, Radiant, and other important companies are in SoCal, tapping into the talent of generations of folks who built the aerospace and defense industries. And of course as AI goes from text to photos to video to full-length forms of media, I think we'll see a rapid explosion of creativity as Hollywood (with reluctance) embraces generative AI. It may take forever for the big companies to agree to it, but there are countless creatives -- writers, photographers, directors, special effects people, artists of all stripes -- who are playing with AI in their spare time. It's inevitable that LA plays a big role in story and culture. But back to Tech Week -- the other interesting question, why are startup hosting so many thousands of events? for a new generation of founders, the week has become the equivalent of a college campus. Instead of dorm mixers and job fairs, it’s hundreds of events where they meet cofounders, early hires, and their first investors. for investors, it’s an efficient sourcing tool. One week, one city, tens of thousands of people. The density of founders you can meet IRL is impossible to recreate online.
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we need more people to rethink cars, planes and cities. LA folks - if you're tired of being stuck in traffic twice a day, maybe join these Future of Mobility conversations at Tech Week: - https://lnkd.in/gMxHg-PZ - https://lnkd.in/dNUjapKY
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Excited to be part of SF Tech Week this year with Andreessen Horowitz! Join us at Base Power Hour to hear from our CEO, Zach Dell, Head of Software, Jared Greene, and the Base team about how we’re building America’s Power Company. If you’re an engineer in the Bay Area, we would love for you to join us, connect with the team, and be part of the conversation. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gVRUujEt #SFTechWeek #BasePower #a16z Cc: Rose Johnson, Zabie Elmgren, Erin Price-Wright, TECH WEEK by a16z
Base Power Company is bringing the energy to #SFTechWeek -- If you're an engineer in the Bay Area wanting to learn more about how America's Power Company is being built, RSVP below to meet our CEO Zach Dell, Head of Software Jared Greene, myself, and some more of the team at Base Power Hour. Snacks, drinks, and exclusive merch will also be provided See you there: https://lnkd.in/gVRUujEt #SFTechWeek #BasePowerCompany TECH WEEK by a16z Andreessen Horowitz
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not all ideas sit on the line. a few jump out. like these: - how tech is redefining relationships: https://lnkd.in/gP2SNbss - good bots vs bad bots: https://lnkd.in/g-KzkYE3 - hope & innovation: founders reimagining cancer care: https://lnkd.in/geXdwNep - inside the minds building the robots: https://lnkd.in/geNUXH_e which other outlier event topics am i missing? tell me tell me tech-week.com/calendar
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ISO people #hiring in San Francisco 🌉 I will be hosting an event for SF TECH WEEK by a16z for people who: 1) recently moved here or 2) want to move here or 3) are hiring here or 4) are community leaders or 4) are iconic SF based personas interesting people who work as engineers, filmmakers, researchers, writers, marketers, creatives, and more. Please let me know if you are hiring, either recruiter or hiring manager, I'd love to get you an early invite! Will post more soon for people who fit the other categories :) Tagging for vis: Josh, Marc, Madeline, Sean, Ben, Isabelle, Nick, Bryan, Stacy, Jordan, Jordan, Madeline, Victoria, manny, jeff