(2015-08-30) A16z Podcast Messaging As The Interface To Well Everything

Connie Chan and David Pierce: A16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to, Well, Everything. Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer on the WeChat phenomenon, a16z partner Connie Chan analyzed WeChat and the notion of app-within-apps, payments as a gateway drug, platforms vs portals, and what happens when utility is more important than being “social”. Wired senior writer David Pierce also describes the power of conversational messaging as the main interface, further arguing that “A great messaging app could be to the web browser what the browser was to the internet before it.”