@a16z If voice becomes the system of record, agents acting on enterprise data need memory that can hold conversational context across years, not just sessions. 🦭

@a16z That sounds great; those kinds of ideas often come up in those conversations.

@a16z You should probably assume conversation will get more quiet and slightly robotic from now on.

@a16z the watercooler is now on the record. People will adapt they always do. But the ones who don't realize it yet are having very different conversations than the ones who do.

@a16z it's interesting how quickly our communication norms are changing at work

@a16z Apple Note will be the only winner lol

@a16z Voice data is becoming one of the most valuable enterprise assets. AI will reshape how organizations capture knowledge.

@a16z @Scobleizer @RayDalio radical transparency everywhere

@a16z Once every call is recorded, you’ve got a thousand hours of conversation where maybe three sentences changed a decision. The recording was always the easy part.

Finding those three without someone who sat in the room is the problem nobody’s solved yet.

record every meeting so the AI learns the company like a new hire - that's the pitch. the real one's halfway down: every exec gets an agent in every room flagging what matters. the tape that onboards the assistant is the tape read back to you later. you don't make everything permanent for productivity. you make it permanent to have it.

@soleio Unrelated: do you run @TechEmails?

@a16z Yeah this is already happening quietly. The real shift isn’t recording. It’s what gets extracted and how it gets used.

@a16z ngl the 'new category' framing is off. Gong's been doing this for 5 years, it's just moving from sales calls to everything

@a16z @Scobleizer look out Law homies

@a16z Voice becoming a system of record is a big enterprise shift. The hard part will not be recording more meetings; it will be turning them into trusted workflows: ownership, permissions, summaries, follow-ups and audit trails that teams actually rely on.

@a16z the shift is already happening, and most people dont even notice it yet

@a16z

The opportunity is real, and so is the responsibility that comes with it. If every call becomes searchable data, people deserve clear answers: what is recorded, why, who can see it, and how long it is kept. The companies that answer those questions early will earn trust along with productivity.

@a16z Recording the executive team arguing about roadmap changes will surely solve your underlying database bottlenecks.

@a16z https://x.com/Mossad47/status/2064713494323204105?s=20 .