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Elena Burger
Elena Burger appears in 7 indexed conversations across The a16z Show. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Why AI Is Reinventing How Businesses Buy Everything
Seema AmbleElena BurgerVladimir Keil
AI procurement startups are targeting the end-to-end work hidden behind an ERP’s “$8,000” result, where 30 meetings, 500 emails and supplier counteroffers determine cost and delivery.Lio’s path from human review to $10,000, $20,000, or $100,000 negotiations highlights the production bottleneck: 70% accuracy can leave humans doing 100% of the work, while complex multimillion-dollar cases still require specialists.
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
Elena BurgerMatt BornsteinSimon Mo
vLLM has become the execution layer linking more than 1,000 open-weight model architectures to GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, Google, Amazon, Intel, and others, making inference a strategic systems layer.Open weights increasingly offer controllable latency, data, security, and fine-tuning rather than merely cheaper tokens, while licensing and moderation pressures test whether the ecosystem can fund frontier development and trusted specialized use cases.
The New Rules of Enterprise Software with Steven Sinofsky
Seema AmbleSteven SinofskyElena Burger
Agents are weakening the enterprise UI’s monopoly on access, but the durable asset remains the system of record, decades of encoded business logic, and customer-specific exceptions.Lookup, action, and analysis carry different permission, seat, and verification requirements, making AI-native overlays between functions a stronger wedge than direct replacement; trust and exception handling remain the deployment bottlenecks.