From selling startups to Google to backing multibillion‑dollar AI winners - Anish Acharya [a16z]

Today on BILLIONS, I'm sitting down with ⁠Anish Acharya⁠. He sold his first company to Google. His second to Credit Karma — then stayed and helped scale their U.S. Card business to nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue. In 2019, Andreessen Horowitz made him a General Partner. Since then, he's led the Series A in Deel, which just hit a $17.3 billion valuation in October 2025. Most VCs have never operated anything. Anish built, scaled, sold, and then learned how to pick. Anish, thanks a lot for being here ! TIMELINE : 00:00:00 - 00:02:30 : Anish Acharya’s entrepreneurial journey 00:02…