The a16z Show

Mar 20, 2026 54m not processed

Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and ...

Mar 19, 2026 1h 6m not processed

AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

A new paper, “Some Simple Economics of AGI,” is making the rounds—Web3 with a16z we sat down with author Christian Catalini (MIT Crypto Economics Lab) and Ed...

Mar 18, 2026 37m not processed

AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power

Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helber...

Mar 17, 2026 47m not processed

What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update t...

Mar 16, 2026 56m not processed

AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore

In this episode, originally aired on Big Technology Podcast, Olivia Moore discusses whether AI startups can compete with the big chatbots, why American senti...

Mar 15, 2026 1h 49m not processed

Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra

Marc Andreessen joins David Senra for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world’s most ambitious builders. In this co...

Mar 13, 2026 27m not processed

Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon

This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded ...

Mar 12, 2026 32m not processed

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the rol...

Mar 11, 2026 1h 46m not processed

What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO

In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now d...

Mar 10, 2026 40m not processed

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Clau...

Mar 9, 2026 51m not processed

Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity

Daisy Wolf speaks with Dr. Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. They dis...

Mar 6, 2026 55m not processed

Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next

Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg speak with Mike Cannon-Brookes, cofounder and CEO of Atlassian, about how to make sense of the SaaS selloff, why not all soft...

Mar 5, 2026 36m not processed

Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power

In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and Al...

Mar 4, 2026 49m not processed

Deploying AI in Healthcare

a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They...

Mar 3, 2026 50m not processed

Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder

On the show Long Strange Trip, Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan speaks with a16z’s Ben Horowitz about what separates great founder CEOs from everyone e...

Mar 2, 2026 59m not processed

Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto

In this feed drop from the Internet History Podcast, host Brian McCullough speaks with Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z, about his path from 1980s hobbyi...

Feb 27, 2026 48m not processed

a16z's New Media Playbook

Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen discuss how the media landscape has fundamentally changed and what a16z is doing about it. They cover why o...

Feb 26, 2026 47m not processed

When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market

Bloomberg's Odd Lots hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway speak with David George, general partner at a16z and head of the firm's growth fund, about why $5...

Feb 23, 2026 1h 48m not processed

Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics

Moonshots host Peter Diamandis speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, alongside regular cohosts Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Dr....

Feb 20, 2026 52m not processed

Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding

Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk a...

Feb 19, 2026 57m not processed

AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power

a16z's Martin Casado and Sarah Wang join Latent Space hosts Alessio Fanelli and Swyx to discuss what makes this AI investment cycle unlike anything in the hi...

Feb 18, 2026 59m not processed

From Copilots to Agents: Rebuilding the Company Around AI

a16z's Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez speak with Carlos García Ottati, founder and CEO of Kavak, about building Latin America's largest online used car m...

Feb 17, 2026 30m not processed

WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation

In this episode from WSJ Invest Live, Andy Serwer speaks with Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z, about the American Dynamism practice she helped launc...

Feb 16, 2026 58m not processed

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company

a16z general partner Jorge Conde talks with Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis International, about transforming a 250-year-old conglomerate into a pure play...

Feb 13, 2026 1h 3m not processed

Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State

Balaji Srinivasan speaks with Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, about China's industrial rise, America's competing strengths in software and finance, and what h...

Feb 12, 2026 1h 21m not processed

Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI?

In this episode from 20VC, Harry Stebbings talks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about the future of SaaS in an AI world. Anish argues that soft...

Feb 11, 2026 1h 5m not processed

How Magic Johnson Built a Billion-Dollar Portfolio in 30 Years

a16z’s Chris Lyons speaks with Earvin "Magic" Johnson about his 30-year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman. They cover the art of deal-making, l...

Feb 10, 2026 26m not processed

Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?

Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel speaks with a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen about why AI may finally break a 50-year productivity slump—and what's at stak...

Feb 9, 2026 47m not processed

The State of Markets

a16z Head of Investor Relations Jen Kha speaks with general partner David George about the state of AI and private technology markets. David shares data on w...

Feb 6, 2026 2h 6m not processed

Balaji & Benedict Evans: When Tech Breaks Industries

This episode originally appeared on the Network State Podcast. Balaji Srinivasan and Benedict Evans sit down in Singapore for a wide-ranging conversation on ...

Feb 5, 2026 29m not processed

Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES

Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal sit down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado on WSJ’s Bold Names to ask whether the AI spendi...

Feb 4, 2026 41m not processed

Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed. They discuss why American health outcomes are so poor compared to t...

Feb 3, 2026 1h 2m not processed

Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation

Recorded live at our Founders Summit, a16z general partner Chris Dixon speaks with Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus VR. They talk about what it t...

Feb 2, 2026 36m not processed

David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty

a16z general partner David Haber spoke with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz on the current macro environment, enterprise AI a...

Jan 30, 2026 57m not processed

“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five times last year's rate—and 96% aren't coming from AI codin...

Jan 29, 2026 1h 41m not processed

Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History

Recently, Marc Andreessen joined Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny's Podcast. They talked about why 2025 may be the most significant year in tech history, how AI is r...

Jan 28, 2026 42m not processed

Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States

Can a country be built from the internet up? Not as a metaphor or an online community, but as a system that replaces institutions we usually think of as fixe...

Jan 27, 2026 1h 34m not processed

Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection

Out-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in practi...

Jan 26, 2026 1h 4m not processed

The Hidden Economics Powering AI

In this episode, Jen Kha, Head of Investor Relations, and David George, General Partner, discuss how late-stage private markets are evolving as AI reshapes s...

Jan 23, 2026 44m not processed

How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents

Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, Andreess...

Jan 22, 2026 43m not processed

Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference ...

Jan 21, 2026 27m not processed

Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI

In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing....

Jan 20, 2026 46m not processed

From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu

Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington. ...

Jan 19, 2026 1h 10m not processed

The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

The a16z AI Apps team outlines how they are thinking about the AI application cycle and why they believe it represents the largest and fastest product shift ...

Jan 16, 2026 57m not processed

How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era

The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actua...

Jan 15, 2026 58m not processed

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a conversation on how th...

Jan 14, 2026 17m not processed

Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive

a16z General Partner Alex Rampell joined the Technology Brothers Podcast Network following the announcement of Andreessen Horowitz’s new fund to discuss what...

Jan 13, 2026 34m not processed

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

AI is changing how companies are built and how venture firms operate, forcing faster decisions, clearer judgment, and new ways of working.In this exclusive c...

Jan 12, 2026 1h 11m not processed

Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives

This episode is a special feed drop from The Twenty Minute VC, featuring a conversation between Harry Stebbings and a16z General Partner Alex Rampell.Alex sh...

Jan 11, 2026 24m not processed

Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game

Following the announcement of a16z’s new fund, Andreessen Horowitz cofounder and general partner Ben Horowitz joined TBPN to discuss how Andreessen Horowitz ...

Jan 9, 2026 59m not processed

Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale

In this feed drop from Uncapped, Jack Altman sits down with a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz to unpack the founding bet behind Andreessen Horowitz. VC should be ...

Jan 8, 2026 32m not processed

Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents

In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies like Key...

Jan 7, 2026 1h 21m not processed

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

a16z co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen joins an AMA-style conversation to explain why AI is the largest technology shift he has experienced, how...

Jan 6, 2026 58m not processed

Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design...

Jan 5, 2026 1h 3m not processed

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

Originally published in June 2023, this conversation features a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen following the release of his nearly 7,000-word essay arguing tha...

Jan 2, 2026 35m not processed

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Originally ...

Jan 1, 2026 1h 6m not processed

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Originally aired in October 2023, this episode centers on Marc Andreessen’s essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, which lays out his vision for the future of ...

Dec 31, 2025 28m not processed

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in this d...

Dec 30, 2025 1h 22m not processed

Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run

This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived through mult...

Dec 29, 2025 44m not processed

Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?

As 2025 comes to a close, consumer AI is entering a new phase. A small number of products now dominate everyday use, multimodal models have unlocked entirely...

Dec 26, 2025 20m not processed

Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives

New infrastructure primitives are creating entirely new rails for building.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore three foundational shifts that unloc...

Dec 25, 2025 21m not processed

Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack

AI is moving into the physical economy.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore what changes when AI leaves the screen and becomes part of factories, co...

Dec 24, 2025 17m not processed

Big Ideas 2026: Voice Agents and High-Stakes Trust

Voice is becoming one of the fastest paths for AI to do real work, especially in regulated environments where accuracy and compliance matter. In this episode...

Dec 23, 2025 22m not processed

Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer

AI is becoming the orchestration layer inside the enterprise.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore the shift from isolated AI copilots to coordinated...

Dec 22, 2025 14m not processed

Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface

AI is moving from chat to action.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change is not just sm...

Dec 19, 2025 45m not processed

The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry

Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into the categ...

Dec 18, 2025 1h 2m not processed

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been involved in back...

Dec 17, 2025 59m not processed

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the problem....

Dec 16, 2025 52m not processed

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the compa...

Dec 12, 2025 1h 2m not processed

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing in scale...

Dec 10, 2025 57m not processed

How the Best CEOs Delegate

Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious people wi...

Dec 9, 2025 37m not processed

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.AI coding is already actively changing how software gets...

Dec 8, 2025 30m not processed

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously...

Dec 5, 2025 1h 1m not processed

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created I...

Dec 4, 2025 50m not processed

How AI Created the Fastest Product Cycle in History

Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is enabling ...

Dec 3, 2025 51m not processed

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die - and why the survi...

Dec 2, 2025 1h 10m not processed

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader. Resources:Follow Ben on X: https://x.c...

Dec 1, 2025 58m not processed

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually is.In thi...

Nov 28, 2025 53m not processed

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its platfor...

Nov 27, 2025 46m not processed

Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future

Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhattan Projec...

Nov 26, 2025 59m not processed

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investing track r...

Nov 25, 2025 34m not processed

How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI

Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build empires?I...

Nov 24, 2025 1h not processed

The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years, and wha...

Nov 21, 2025 1h 5m not processed

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" investors dem...

Nov 20, 2025 43m not processed

Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig

The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved them is fi...

Nov 19, 2025 1h 16m not processed

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything about how fa...

Nov 17, 2025 1h 10m not processed

Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation with Erik...

Nov 14, 2025 1h 2m not processed

Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg

Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the last one....

Nov 13, 2025 44m not processed

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the groundwo...

Nov 12, 2025 55m not processed

Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis

The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years. Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket CEO) expose how...

Nov 11, 2025 53m not processed

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR without spend...

Nov 10, 2025 27m not processed

Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI

When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Cu...

Nov 9, 2025 1h 38m not processed

a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'

The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's 2025 St...

Nov 7, 2025 1h 2m not processed

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without understandin...

Nov 6, 2025 45m not processed

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg join a16z’s Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala to share how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is building the...

Nov 5, 2025 50m not processed

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software

Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Wabi and AI pioneer behind Replika, joins Erik, Anish, and Justine to reveal how personal software will transform from a developer mono...

Nov 5, 2025 31m not processed

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

ElevenLabs CEO and co‑founder Mati Staniszewski joins Jennifer Li to explain how the team ships research‑grade AI at lightning speed—from text‑to‑speech and ...

Nov 3, 2025 1h 16m not processed

David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF

David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar, joins Marc, Ben, and Erik to explore what's really happening inside the Trump administration's AI and crypto str...

Nov 1, 2025 39m not processed

Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War

As global tensions rise, AI and autonomy are transforming how nations prepare for conflict.In this episode, Horacio Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton and ...

Oct 31, 2025 38m not processed

Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI's Future

In this closing keynote from a16z’s Runtime conference, General Partner Erik Torenberg speaks with our firm’s cofounders, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on...

Oct 30, 2025 31m not processed

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

In this conversation from a16z’s Runtime conference, Gavin Baker, Managing Partner and CIO of Atreides Management, joins David George, General Partner at a16...

Oct 29, 2025 32m not processed

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

AI isn’t just changing software, it’s causing the biggest buildout of physical infrastructure in modern history.In this episode, Raghu Raghuram (a16z) speaks...

Oct 28, 2025 54m not processed

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

Google DeepMind’s new image model Nano Banana took the internet by storm.In this episode, we sit down with Principal Scientist Oliver Wang and Group Product ...

Oct 27, 2025 30m not processed

Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure

From Netscape to VMware, Raghu Raghuram has been at the center of nearly every major inflection point in enterprise technology.In this episode, Raghu joins B...

Oct 24, 2025 1h 15m not processed

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America

In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg dive into the movies that best explain America, from Once U...

Oct 23, 2025 1h 11m not processed

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language

Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, joins a16z’s Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg to discuss the new world of AI agents, the future of programming, and...

Oct 22, 2025 1h 25m not processed

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code

In this episode, a16z's Anish Acharya joins Kevin Rose for an in-depth, fast-paced conversation on the rebirth of consumer technology, and how AI is reshapin...

Oct 21, 2025 37m not processed

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

Augusto Marietti, CEO and cofounder of Kong, has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley history.In this conversation with Martin Casado...

Oct 20, 2025 53m not processed

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity

Reid Hoffman has been at the center of every major tech shift, from co-founding LinkedIn and helping build PayPal to investing early in OpenAI. In this conve...

Oct 17, 2025 1h 7m not processed

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset, and Marc Andreessen thinks it’s long overdue.In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Mar...

Oct 16, 2025 49m not processed

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

From politics to technology to real estate, Keith Rabois has bold predictions for America’s next decade.In this conversation with Erik Torenberg, Keith break...

Oct 15, 2025 1h 4m not processed

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

Ben Horowitz founded Loudcloud in the middle of the dot-com bust and sold it for $1.6 billion, then led Andreessen Horowitz from its founding to $46 billion ...

Oct 14, 2025 1h 31m not processed

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question

Nathan Labenz is one of the clearest voices analyzing where AI is headed, pairing sharp technical analysis with his years of work on The Cognitive Revolution...

Oct 13, 2025 50m not processed

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science

From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the needle o...

Oct 12, 2025 52m not processed

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?

Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.In this episode of Monitoring th...

Oct 8, 2025 48m not processed

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later.In this episod...

Oct 7, 2025 55m not processed

How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace - Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO

Opendoor is trying to make it easier to buy a home. Kaz Nejatian just joined as CEO to help them succeed.In this episode, a16z General Partners Alex Rampell ...

Oct 6, 2025 1h 3m not processed

Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?

From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still compete?...

Oct 5, 2025 58m not processed

Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse

Two trends in media have been abundantly clear since 2020: legacy media is dying, and independent media is rising.a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Ka...

Oct 3, 2025 26m not processed

Software is Eating Labor

Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy, captur...

Oct 2, 2025 57m not processed

The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?

Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Co-Founder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig into Am...

Oct 1, 2025 2h 9m not processed

Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions

Today we’re sharing a feed drop from Cheeky Pint, where Stripe cofounder and president John Collison chats with legends in technology over a pint of Guinness...

Sep 30, 2025 54m not processed

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach. In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Mi...

Sep 29, 2025 1h 2m not processed

Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood

Ads pay for the internet—and they’re about to change again. a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg, entrepreneur and author Antonio García Martínez, and Meta CM...

Sep 27, 2025 1h not processed

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z...

Sep 25, 2025 52m not processed

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki

What comes after vibe coding? Maybe vibe researching.OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Jakub Pachocki, and Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, join a16z general partn...

Sep 24, 2025 59m not processed

Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie

Should the US put a price on H-1B visas, or would that block the flow of new talent? Are AI coding agents actually making teams way more productive, or is it...

Sep 23, 2025 58m not processed

America's Autism Crisis and How AI Can Fix Science with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is one of the country’s top medical experts and a 24-year professor of medicine at Stanford. After being censored and deplatformed durin...

Sep 22, 2025 1h 40m not processed

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China

Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ripple ef...

Sep 21, 2025 23m not processed

Charlie Kirk and the Rise of Political Violence

In this episode of Honestly with Bari Weiss, we share a special conversation featuring a16z general partner Katherine Boyle in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s sho...

Sep 17, 2025 45m not processed

The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI

The web is unhealthy, and AI agents are about to rewrite how we shop.In this episode, a16z General Partner Alex Rampell and Partner Justine Moore explore how...

Sep 16, 2025 1h 20m not processed

How OpenAI Built Its Coding Agent

OpenAI’s Codex has already shipped hundreds of thousands of pull requests in its first month. But what is it really, and how will coding agents change the fu...

Sep 15, 2025 56m not processed

Faster Science, Better Drugs

Can we make science as fast as software? In this episode, Erik Torenberg talks with Patrick Hsu (cofounder of Arc Institute) and a16z general partner Jorge C...

Sep 12, 2025 1h 35m not processed

Ben Horowitz: Why Hesitation is a CEO’s Worst Enemy

In this conversation from Lenny’s Podcast, Ben Horowitz joins Lenny to discuss the psychological muscle every founder needs, why hesitation can be fatal for ...

Sep 11, 2025 54m not processed

Inside the $13T Mortgage Machine

The $13T U.S. mortgage market serves 50M homeowners but still runs on decades-old software. In this episode, a16z GP Angela Strange hosts Tim Mayopoulos (ex-...

Sep 10, 2025 42m not processed

Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products

Why do some consumer products explode into networks that reshape the internet, while others fade away?Today on the podcast, a16z general partners Anish Achar...

Sep 9, 2025 1h 1m not processed

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics

What happens when AI collides with salesmanship, streaming-era sports, and healthcare?In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, ...

Sep 8, 2025 57m not processed

The Little Tech Agenda for AI

Who’s speaking up for startups in Washington, D.C.?In this episode, Matt Perault (Head of AI Policy, a16z) and Collin McCune (Head of Government Affairs, a16...

Sep 6, 2025 26m not processed

Building APIs for Developers and AI Agents

Stainless founder Alex Rattray joins a16z partner Jennifer Li to talk about the future of APIs, SDKs, and the rise of MCP (Model Context Protocol). Drawing o...

Sep 5, 2025 36m not processed

How to Be Free: Shaka Senghor, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Horowitz

Taken from The Oprah Podcast, this special episode brings together Shaka Senghor, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz, and Oprah Winfrey for a powerful conversation ...

Sep 4, 2025 54m not processed

Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?

Is non-consensus investing overrated—or the secret to venture returns?a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg is joined by Martín Casado (General Partner, a16z) ...

Sep 3, 2025 53m not processed

Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of VC

Jack Altman sits down with Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, to unpack the shifting dynamics of venture capital and why media matters more than ever. T...

Sep 2, 2025 46m not processed

Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

What if the future of media isn’t controlled by algorithms or legacy institutions—but by independent voices building directly with their audiences?In this ep...

Aug 30, 2025 2h 51m not processed

Katherine Boyle on Shawn Ryan

Venture capital has powered companies like Facebook and TikTok—but what if that same urgency fueled America’s defense and industrial base? Katherine Boyle, G...

Aug 28, 2025 1h 17m not processed

Monopolies vs Oligopolies in AI

In this interview from the 20VC podcast, Martin Casado (a16z General Partner) joins Harry Stebbings to unpack the state of AI, the rise of coding models, the...

Aug 27, 2025 25m not processed

The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025

What are real consumers actually doing with AI today?In this episode, a16z consumer investors Olivia Moore and Justine Moore break down the fifth edition of ...

Aug 25, 2025 55m not processed

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future

What exactly is an AI agent, and how will agents change the way we work?In this episode, a16z general partners Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado sit down with...

Aug 23, 2025 43m not processed

Ben Horowitz on How a16z Was Built

Erik Torenberg sits down with Ben Horowitz, Cofounder of a16z, for a candid conversation on venture capital, leadership, and the future of innovation. Record...

Aug 22, 2025 1h 9m not processed

AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the future.From the thermod...

Aug 21, 2025 39m not processed

Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

Housing and healthcare make up nearly half of household spending, yet both sectors are riddled with inefficiency and rising costs.In this episode, Erik Toren...

Aug 20, 2025 1h 12m not processed

Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs

Do tariffs help rebuild American manufacturing or hold it back? In this episode, American Compass founder and chief economist Oren Cass sits down with commen...

Aug 18, 2025 1h 4m not processed

Dylan Patel: GPT-5, NVIDIA, Intel, Meta, Apple

The AI hardware race is heating up, and NVIDIA is still far ahead. What will it take to close the gap?In this episode, Dylan Patel (Founder & CEO, SemiAnalys...

Aug 16, 2025 41m not processed

Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building

Genie 3 can generate fully interactive, persistent worlds from just text, in real time.In this episode, Google DeepMind’s Jack Parker-Holder (Research Scient...

Aug 15, 2025 42m not processed

The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’

a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Anjney Midha join Erik Torenberg to unpack one of the most dramatic shifts in tech policy in recent memory: the move ...

Aug 14, 2025 1h 6m not processed

H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim

We’re sharing an episode from ChinaTalk that dives into one of the biggest recent reversals in U.S. tech policy.The U.S. banned Nvidia’s H20 AI chips to Chin...

Aug 13, 2025 27m not processed

Grok, Genie 3, GPT-5 & the Rise of Vibe Coding

a16z partners Olivia and Justine Moore unpack the latest in consumer AI including: - Grok’s “Imagine” and its instant, social-first creative tools- Google’s ...

Aug 13, 2025 15m not processed

Alex Danco on Speechwriting, Blogging, and Giving Founders Power

Fresh off the announcement of his move from Shopify to a16z, Alex Danco joins TBPN to talk about the “trade deal” that brought him here and his mission to ma...

Aug 11, 2025 1h 17m not processed

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order

There’s been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and inno...

Aug 8, 2025 37m not processed

Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete

In this episode, Marc Andreessen joins TBPN for an unfiltered conversation spanning everything from ads in LLMs to why Apple’s AI strategy may be risky for a...

Aug 8, 2025 43m not processed

GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim

ChatGPT-5 just launched, marking a major milestone for OpenAI and the entire AI ecosystem.Fresh off the live stream, Erik Torenberg was joined in the studio ...

Aug 6, 2025 42m not processed

How to Build a Successful Company in an Era of Disruption

What happens when a startup becomes a giant—and then has to reinvent itself all over again?In this episode, Martin Casado sits down with Raghu Raghuram (form...

Aug 4, 2025 1h 1m not processed

Dwarkesh and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy

In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined in the studio by Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith to explore one of the biggest questions in tech: what exactly is art...

Aug 1, 2025 1h 37m not processed

Balaji on How Tech Truly Wins Media

What really caused the breakdown between tech and media—and what comes next?Erik Torenberg sits down with Balaji Srinivasan (entrepreneur, investor, and auth...

Jul 30, 2025 41m not processed

AI Content and the War for Your Attention

What happens when AI starts generating content for everyone—and no one wants to watch it?In this episode, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and ad tech veteran Antonio Gar...

Jul 28, 2025 1h 5m not processed

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado sit down with technologist and investor Balaji Srinivasan to explore how the metaphors we use to descr...

Jul 25, 2025 1h 37m not processed

Ben and Marc on New Media: Podcasts, Politics & the Collapse of Trust

On this episode of The Ben & Marc Show, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Erik Torenberg— General Partner at a16z and founder o...

Jul 23, 2025 48m not processed

Critical Minerals: Mining for the Industrial Future

It can take more than 15 years to permit and build a new mine in the United States - yet nearly every modern technology we rely on, from smartphones to fight...

Jul 21, 2025 44m not processed

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants

Is AI the Fourth Pillar of Infrastructure?Infrastructure doesn’t go away — it layers. And today, AI is emerging as a new foundational layer alongside compute...

Jul 18, 2025 30m not processed

Marc Andreessen and Joe Lonsdale on Tariffs and Trade

Today we’re sharing an episode from American Optimist featuring Marc Andreessen in conversation with Joe Lonsdale, recorded live at the inaugural Ronald Reag...

Jul 16, 2025 44m not processed

America's Energy Problem: The Grid That Built America Can’t Power Its Future

U.S. per capita energy usage peaked in 1973. Since then? Flat. Meanwhile, China’s per capita energy use has grown 9x.Today, AI, EVs, manufacturing, and data ...

Jul 14, 2025 53m not processed

Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption

In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Box cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie to talk about how AI is changing not just software, but ...

Jul 11, 2025 1h 22m not processed

Ben Horowitz: What Founders Must Know About AI and Crypto

This week on the a16z Podcast, we're sharing a feed drop from Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, featuring a wide-ranging conversation with a16z cofounder Ben Ho...

Jul 9, 2025 37m not processed

Stablecoins & the Future Financial System

a16z Crypto General Partners Ali Yahya, Arianna Simpson, and Erik Torenberg break down what’s actually working in crypto today - starting with the rise of st...

Jul 7, 2025 1h 23m not processed

How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next

On this episode, taken from The Ben & Marc Show, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz dive deep into the unfiltered story behind the founding of...

Jul 4, 2025 26m not processed

Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web

Taken from the AI + a16z podcast, Arcjet CEO David Mytton sits down with a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discuss the increasing complexity of managing who c...

Jul 2, 2025 18m not processed

Marc Andreessen on Startup Timing

What if now is the best time in decades to start a company?In this episode, taken from Speedrun, a16z’s accelerator for early-stage founders, Marc Andreessen...

Jun 30, 2025 52m not processed

Katherine Boyle: How Tech Can Rebuild America

Why does seriousness feel radical today? a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle joins The LaBossiere Podcast to explore what it means to build for the national...

Jun 27, 2025 30m not processed

Where We Are in the AI Cycle

In this episode of ‘This Week in Consumer’, a16z General Partners Anish Acharya and Erik Torenberg are joined by Steven Sinofsky - Board Partner at a16z and ...

Jun 25, 2025 38m not processed

Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks

What if virality wasn’t a tactic — but the entire product?In this episode, a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Bryan Kim sit down with Roy Lee, cofounde...

Jun 23, 2025 1h 6m not processed

Chris Dixon & Tyler Cowen on Crypto, AI, and Philosophy

In this episode, general partner Chris Dixon joins economist and author Tyler Cowen to explore the themes behind Chris’s book, Read, Write, Own: Building the...

Jun 21, 2025 12m not processed

Why We Invested In Cluely

In this episode, a16z general partner Bryan Kim joins TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays to discuss the recent launch of Cluely , a consumer AI product. T...

Jun 20, 2025 29m not processed

The State of AI & Education

How is AI actually being used in classrooms today? Are teachers adopting it, or resisting it? And could software eventually replace traditional instruction e...

Jun 18, 2025 49m not processed

How Apple Became So Reliant on China & What it Means For Their Future

What if the rise of Apple also built modern China?a16z’s Erik Torenberg is joined by board partner and former Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky to unpa...

Jun 16, 2025 1h 29m not processed

Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies

In this recent episode of The Ben & Marc Show, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Adam Neumann—founder of WeWork and now Flow—to...

Jun 13, 2025 28m not processed

What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)

Things in consumer AI are moving fast. In this episode, Justine and Olivia Moore, investing partners (and identical twins!) at a16z, break down what’s real, ...

Jun 11, 2025 1h 41m not processed

Marc Andreessen & Jack Altman: Venture Capital, AI, & Media

In this episode Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice and host of Uncapped, interviews Marc Andreessen on how venture capital is evolving — from small seed funds to bi...

Jun 9, 2025 29m not processed

Chris Dixon: Stablecoins, Startups, and the Crypto Stack

What if crypto isn’t just a speculative asset class—but the next foundational layer of the internet?In this episode, Chris Dixon, founding partner of a16z cr...

Jun 6, 2025 47m not processed

The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI

In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg is joined by the a16z Consumer team—General Partner Anish Acharya and Partners Olivia Moore, Justine Moo...

Jun 4, 2025 22m not processed

Fei-Fei Li: World Models and the Multiverse

What if the next leap in artificial intelligence isn’t about better language—but better understanding of space?In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Tor...

Jun 2, 2025 32m not processed

Marc Andreessen: What We Got Right—and Wrong—About the Future of Tech

What does it take to build a venture firm from scratch—and scale it across multiple waves of technological and cultural change?In this special episode record...

May 31, 2025 33m not processed

Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George

What happens when two of the biggest tech waves—AI and crypto—start to converge?In this LP Summit conversation, a16z General Partners Chris Dixon and David G...

May 29, 2025 1h 16m not processed

Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software

In this episode a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with legendary music producer and bestselling author Rick Rubin to explore the ori...

May 27, 2025 21m not processed

Where Value Will Accrue in AI: Martin Casado & Sarah Wang

AI’s breakout moment is here - but where is the real value accruing, and what’s just hype?Recorded live at a16z’s annual LP Summit, General Partners Erik Tor...

May 24, 2025 32m not processed

Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models

What happens when AI stops being just infrastructure—and becomes a matter of national identity and global power?In this episode, a16z’s Anjney Midha and Guid...

May 22, 2025 36m not processed

What Is an AI Agent?

What exactly is an AI agent — and does anyone actually agree?In this episode, taken from of AI + a16z, General Partner Guido Appenzeller and partners Matt Bo...

May 20, 2025 33m not processed

The Evolution of the Firm — with Ben and Marc

Recorded live at the 2025 a16z LP Summit, this episode is a candid conversation between a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz—hosted by general pa...

May 17, 2025 17m not processed

Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a $300 billion industry powering the back- and front-office operations of the world’s largest companies.In her article,...

May 16, 2025 28m not processed

Marc Andreessen: Deep Vs. Broad Founders, AI in America, & the New Face of a16z

Today on the a16z Podcast, we’re sharing Marc Andreessen’s recent appearance on TBPN.Marc—cofounder and general partner at a16z—joins hosts John Coogan and J...

May 14, 2025 42m not processed

What Super Agers Reveal About Preventing Disease

American healthcare is in crisis—but what if we could change the system by preventing disease before it starts?In this episode of the a16z Podcast, general p...

May 7, 2025 33m not processed

Startups & Defense: Katherine Boyle on TBPN

In this episode of th a16z Podcast, we’re sharing Katherine Boyle’s recent interview on TBPN.Katherine—General Partner at a16z and the architect of the Ameri...

May 7, 2025 35m not processed

Do You Really Know Your ICP? Why It Matters and How to Find Out

Your ideal customer profile (ICP) is the north star for your entire company: it determines who you’re building for and selling to. Though most growth-stage f...

Apr 30, 2025 40m not processed

The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure

Today’s critical infrastructure—air traffic, logistics, defense—is powered by legacy software. And that’s a problem.In this episode, recorded live at the a16...

Apr 24, 2025 32m not processed

What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech

Are we nearing the end of the smartphone era?In this episode, a16z Growth General Partner David George talks with Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth about what c...

Apr 16, 2025 37m not processed

The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America

In today’s world, the battlefield extends far beyond war zones—it’s embedded in our tech stacks, supply chains, and airspace security systems. So who better ...

Apr 9, 2025 40m not processed

The Future of Drone Warfare

War has always been shaped by technology—from steel and gunpowder to GPS and nuclear weapons. But the decisive technologies of tomorrow aren’t coming—they’re...

Apr 2, 2025 51m not processed

How to Build with the Department of Defense

When people think about startups working with the government, the phrase “black box” often comes up. But what if that box is finally being pried open?In this...

Mar 26, 2025 38m not processed

The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained

This month, a16z’s Consumer team released the fourth edition of the GenAI 100 — a data-driven ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products and mobile apps, ba...

Mar 21, 2025 55m not processed

Jensen Huang and Arthur Mensch on Winning the Global AI Race

The global race for AI leadership is no longer just about companies—it’s about nations. AI isn’t just computing infrastructure; it’s cultural infrastructure,...

Mar 18, 2025 43m not processed

Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever

AI voice technology has been around for years — think Siri or Alexa — but the magic has been missing. That’s changing, and quickly!In this episode, Anish Ach...

Mar 11, 2025 42m not processed

From Thesis to Meme to Fund: Building American Dynamism

For over a century, the United States has been the birthplace of world-changing innovation – from the Wright brothers’ first flight to the invention of the t...

Mar 7, 2025 40m not processed

What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO

Henry Ward, cofounder and CEO of Carta, has spent over a decade scaling his company from an early-stage startup to a 2,000-person industry leader. In this a1...

Feb 25, 2025 42m not processed

Creativity vs Control: Where AI Fits in the Creative Toolbox

Being a creator in 2025 is tough—but building for creators is even harder. Perhaps no one understands this conundrum better than Scott Belsky. As the founder...

Feb 20, 2025 32m not processed

Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto

Technology doesn’t grow in isolation—it evolves in waves. Just as mobile, cloud, and SaaS shaped the internet of the past 20 years, so too could crypto, AI, ...

Feb 11, 2025 42m not processed

The Critical Technology in Finding Critical Materials

Critical materials like copper, lithium, and gallium have been mined for decades, but their role in core technologies, geopolitics, and the energy transition...

Feb 6, 2025 43m not processed

DeepSeek: America’s Sputnik Moment for AI?

Two words have caught the Internet by storm. DeepSeek. The Chinese reasoning model r1 is rivaling others at the frontier with an open-source MIT license, met...

Feb 1, 2025 55m not processed

Ben Horowitz Sharing History with Dr. Clarence Jones, MLK's Speechwriter

This week, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz had a rare and invaluable conversation with Dr. Clarence B. Jones, a pivotal figure in American history. Dr. Jones, wh...

Jan 28, 2025 35m not processed

How AI Is Changing Warfare with Brian Schimpf, CEO of Anduril

How is AI reshaping modern warfare? Speaking with a16z Growth General Partner David George, Anduril cofounder and CEO Brian Schimpf discusses how AI helps hu...

Jan 22, 2025 17m not processed

RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work

Intelligent automation is transforming industries by tackling messy, unstructured workflows that traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA) couldn’t handle...

Jan 15, 2025 32m not processed

Marc Andreessen: Can Tech Finally Fix Healthcare?

Healthcare is a $4 trillion industry, making up nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy—but despite having some of the best doctors and advanced technology, the s...

Jan 9, 2025 36m not processed

Building Substack: Reinventing Culture through Subscriptions

In this episode, Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best joins a16z General Partner Andrew Chen to discuss the origins and evolution of Substack, a platform re...

Jan 3, 2025 34m not processed

Crypto Trends for 2025: Stablecoins, App Stores, UX, and More

with @sambroner @meigga @darenmatsuoka @jneu_net @chrislyons and @rhhackett @smc90Welcome to our special end-of-year episodes -- which also look ahead to 202...

Dec 30, 2024 52m not processed

Super Staffing Healthcare, Codifying Compliance, & Scaling Services

As we prepare to step into 2025, the possibilities for applied AI are reshaping industries in profound ways. In this episode, a16z General Partners Julie Yoo...

Dec 25, 2024 42m not processed

The Race for AI—Search, National Infrastructure, & On-Device AI

The AI race is on, and 2025 could be its most transformative year yet.In this episode, a16z General Partners Anjney Midha and Jennifer Li, and Partner Alex I...

Dec 20, 2024 41m not processed

Jobs of the Future, Harnessing Earth Observation, & Gaming Tech Advances

As 2025 begins, industries are evolving at unprecedented speed: robots are revolutionizing manufacturing, terabytes of earth observation data are driving new...

Dec 16, 2024 45m not processed

Scaling Shopify: Tobias Lütke and Ben Horowitz on Building a Global Giant

In this episode of Web3 with a16z, Shopify CEO and cofounder Tobias Lütke joins a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz for a conversation recorded live at the a16z cryp...

Dec 11, 2024 44m not processed

How AI is Transforming Labor Markets

Did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero?In this episode General P...

Dec 6, 2024 38m not processed

Fixing Education in America: What's Stopping Us?

Over half of Americans live in childcare deserts, while 90% of brain development happens before the age of five. All the while, education and childcare remai...

Dec 2, 2024 1h 49m not processed

Prediction Markets and Beyond

This episode was originally published on our sister podcast, web3 with a16z. If you’re excited about the next generation of the internet, check out the show:...

Nov 25, 2024 16m not processed

Death of a Salesforce: Why AI Will Transform Sales

Sales is evolving. AI-native systems are replacing traditional CRM tools, capturing unstructured insights from emails, Slack, surveys, and more in real time....

Nov 18, 2024 40m not processed

The Longevity Imperative: Redefining the Way We Age

What if the biggest challenge of our time isn’t living longer, but living better? In this episode, we’re tackling one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments—...

Nov 11, 2024 32m not processed

Rebuilding America's Industrial Backbone

America is a country of immense wealth, but our manufacturing infrastructure is struggling to keep pace.In this episode, we discuss the overlooked crisis of ...

Nov 4, 2024 48m not processed

Autonomy Across Air, Land, and Sea

2024 has been a milestone year for autonomous tech. Waymo’s fully autonomous driver has surpassed 20 million miles, while FAA approvals now allow commercial ...

Oct 29, 2024 54m not processed

State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election, Stablecoins, AI, More

We take you behind the scenes of our newly released, annual State of Crypto Report — a16z crypto's analysis of the latest data and trends that have defined t...

Oct 24, 2024 36m not processed

Tesla's Road Ahead: The Bitter Lesson in Robotics

What does Rich Sutton’s "Bitter Lesson" reveal about the decisions Tesla is making in its pursuit of autonomy?In this episode, we dive into Tesla’s recent "W...

Oct 22, 2024 31m not processed

The Story of Apple Pay with Jennifer Bailey

In 2024, marking 10 years since its launch, Apple Pay now boasts hundreds of millions of consumers in 78 markets, at checkout on millions of websites and app...

Oct 17, 2024 30m not processed

Building a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su

Lisa Su has transformed AMD into a global leader in AI and high-performance computing.In this episode of the AI Revolution (AIR) series , Bob Swan, a16z Oper...

Oct 11, 2024 34m not processed

The Deepfake Dilemma: The Technology, Policy, and Economy

Deepfakes—AI-generated fake videos and voices—have become a widespread concern across politics, social media, and more. As they become easier to create, the ...

Oct 8, 2024 32m not processed

A Big Week in Tech: NotebookLM, OpenAI’s Speech API, & Custom Audio

Last week was another big week in technology. Google’s NotebookLM introduced its Audio Overview feature, enabling users to create customizable podcasts in ov...

Oct 3, 2024 28m not processed

From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

In 1995, just 2% of couples met online. Today, that number has surged to over 50%, making online dating the top way couples connect.In this episode, a16z Gen...

Sep 24, 2024 30m not processed

Human Data is Key to AI: Alex Wang from Scale AI

What if the key to unlocking AI's full potential lies not just in algorithms or compute, but in data? In this episode, a16z General Partner David George sits...

Sep 19, 2024 44m not processed

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, our guests have long been laying the gr...

Sep 14, 2024 31m not processed

Apple’s Big Reveals, OpenAI’s Multi-Step Models, and Firefly Does Video

This week in consumer tech: Apple’s big reveals, OpenAI’s multi-step reasoning, and Adobe Firefly’s video model.Olivia Moore and Justine Moore, Partners on t...

Sep 7, 2024 37m not processed

Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI

Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to discuss the grand challenges facing healthcare A...

Sep 2, 2024 1h 35m not processed

Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

with @NoahRFeldman, @ahall_research, @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about governance in many for...

Aug 28, 2024 41m not processed

It’s Time to Build in Healthcare

Half of prescribed medications are never taken, and 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Despite spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare—twice that of...

Aug 24, 2024 33m not processed

Latin America: A Tech Powerhouse?

Latin America is emerging as a tech powerhouse, but it's not a one-size-fits-all market. In this episode, we explore why what works in Argentina won’t necess...

Aug 18, 2024 22m not processed

The SSN Breach: What Now?

In this episode, we cover the recent data breach of nearly 3B records, including a significant number of social security numbers. Joining us to discuss are s...

Aug 14, 2024 45m not processed

Building Innovation Hubs: The UK & Beyond

This episode from Web3 with a16z Crypto, is all about innovation on a global scale, exploring both ecosystem and individual talent levels. We examine what wo...

Aug 9, 2024 37m not processed

The Olympics of Talent: France's Tech Boom

Once criticized for lacking ambition, French founders are now aiming to create the world’s largest companies. With a thriving ecosystem attracting talent fro...

Aug 5, 2024 38m not processed

Building the World's Most Trusted Driver

Waymo's autonomous vehicles have driven over 20 million miles on public roads and billions more in simulation.In this episode, a16z General Partner David Geo...

Aug 3, 2024 36m not processed

From AI to Instant Replay: The Technology Behind the Olympics

The Olympics features over 11,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, attracting an audience of more than 10 million.In this episode, Charlie Ebersol, co-founde...

Jul 30, 2024 43m not processed

When AI Meets Art

On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders behind som...

Jul 25, 2024 25m not processed

Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More

Gaming is not just entertainment—it's a revolution reshaping our culture, technology, and economy. a16z’s Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen dive into the current ...

Jul 17, 2024 21m not processed

Transitioning From Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman

Former gymnast and current investor Aly Raisman joins general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Daisy Wolf of a16z Bio + Health.In this episode, Aly R...

Jul 12, 2024 46m not processed

Live at Tech Week: Delivering AI Products to Millions

Less than two years since the breakthrough of text-based AI, we now see incredible developments in multimodal AI models and their impact on millions of users...

Jul 8, 2024 1h 42m not processed

Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape & the Birth of the Browser

"The Ben & Marc Show," featuring a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. In this special episode, Marc and Ben dive deep into the REAL story behin...

Jul 3, 2024 1h 3m not processed

The Art of Technology, The Technology of Art

We know that technology has changed art, and that artists have evolved with every new technology — it’s a tale as old as humanity, moving from cave paintings...

Jun 26, 2024 43m not processed

Cybersecurity's Past, Present, and AI-Driven Future

Is it time to hand over cybersecurity to machines amidst the exponential rise in cyber threats and breaches?We trace the evolution of cybersecurity from mini...

Jun 19, 2024 45m not processed

The Science and Supply of GLP-1s

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health.Together, they talk about the value of obes...

Jun 14, 2024 1h 13m not processed

The State of AI with Marc & Ben

In this latest episode on the State of AI, Ben and Marc discuss how small AI startups can compete with Big Tech’s massive compute and data scale advantages, ...

Jun 10, 2024 38m not processed

Predicting Revenue in Usage-based Pricing

Over the past decade, usage-based pricing has soared in popularity. Why? Because it aligns cost with value, letting customers pay only for what they use. But...

Jun 6, 2024 31m not processed

California's Senate Bill 1047: What You Need to Know

On May 21, the California Senate passed bill 1047.This bill – which sets out to regulate AI at the model level – wasn’t garnering much attention, until it sl...

May 27, 2024 47m not processed

The GenAI 100: The Apps that Stick

Consumer AI is moving fast, so who's leading the charge? a16z Consumer Partners Olivia Moore and Bryan Kim discuss our GenAI 100 list and what it takes for a...

May 22, 2024 35m not processed

Finding a Single Source of AI Truth With Marty Chavez From Sixth Street

a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had in merging...

May 19, 2024 23m not processed

A Big Week in AI: GPT-4o & Gemini Find Their Voice

This was a big week in the world of AI, with both OpenAI and Google dropping significant updates. So big that we decided to break things down in a new format...

May 16, 2024 40m not processed

Remaking the UI for AI

Make sure to check out our new AI + a16z feed: https://link.chtbl.com/aiplusa16z a16z General Partner Anjney Midha joins the podcast to discuss what's happen...

May 10, 2024 42m not processed

How Discord Became a Developer Platform

In 2009 Discord cofounder and CEO, Jason Citron, started building tools and infrastructure for games. Fast forward to today and the platform has over 200 mil...

May 6, 2024 59m not processed

Securing the Black Box: OpenAI, Anthropic, and GDM Discuss

Human nature fears the unknown, and with the rapid progress of AI, concerns naturally arise. Uncanny robocalls, data breaches, and misinformation floods are ...

May 1, 2024 55m not processed

Can AI Advance Science? DeepMind's VP of Science Weighs In

In recent years, the AI landscape has seen huge advancements, from the release of Dall-E 2 in April 2022 to the emergence of AI music and video models in ear...

Apr 26, 2024 30m not processed

Next-Gen Gaming: AI Souls, Real-time Culture, Personalized Avatars

Over 3,700 companies applied to a16z’s SPEEDRUN. In this episode, we meet the founders pushing the boundaries of what games can be.From the fusion of traditi...

Apr 22, 2024 24m not processed

Why America Must Lead in AI Investment with Senator Young (R-IN)

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) speaks with a16z General Partner Martin Casado about the importance of open innovation and American leadership in AI, and why we ne...

Apr 17, 2024 40m not processed

Game On: Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers

The gaming industry stands as a pioneer of cutting-edge technologies, ushering in innovations like GPUs, virtual and augmented reality, physics engines, and ...

Apr 10, 2024 30m not processed

Inside the Department of Defense and its Vision for the Future

From air-defining radar and electronic systems that helped the Allies win World War II, the origins of Silicon Valley are deeply rooted in government and def...

Apr 5, 2024 1h 43m not processed

Politics & the Future of Tech with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

“If America is going to be America in the next one hundred years, we have to get this right.” - Ben HorowitzThis week on “The Ben & Marc Show”, a16z co-found...

Mar 29, 2024 25m not processed

The Real Price of Healthcare with Mark Cuban

From judging inventions on “Shark Tank” to reshaping the image of NBA ownership, Mark Cuban is known for many things. In this chat with a16z General Partner ...

Mar 25, 2024 24m not processed

Devoting Your Life to Reinventing a Broken System

At the a16z LP Summit, we brought hundreds of our limited partners and portfolio founders together in Las Vegas.The event was truly overflowing with stories ...

Mar 20, 2024 28m not processed

Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D’Angelo

Generative AI has initiated a transformative shift, reshaping our world in unprecedented ways. In a16z's AI Revolution series, we engage some of the most imp...

Mar 15, 2024 47m not processed

A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?

Nuclear energy accounts for 20% of the electricity in the United States, but remarkably, 2023 marked the commissioning of the U.S.'s first new nuclear reacto...

Mar 11, 2024 46m not processed

Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA

Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm. But despite the hype around personalized avatars or podcast language translation, artificial intelligen...

Mar 7, 2024 43m not processed

From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation

The last few decades have been a period of transition for defense. An increasing number of startups have begun to rival large defense primes, the industry ha...

Mar 4, 2024 30m not processed

What is American Dynamism?

American Dynamism. A term coined by a16z General Partner, Katherine Boyle, two years ago, when she and David Ulevitch founded the firm's American Dynamism in...

Feb 27, 2024 48m not processed

The Quest for True Signal: How Zynga Spotted Mobile

You might recognize the name Mark Pincus but we almost guarantee you recognize the game Farmville. Mark Pincus is the founder and longtime CEO of Zynga, know...

Feb 24, 2024 34m not processed

Beyond Uncanny Valley: Breaking Down Sora

In early 2024, the notion of high fidelity, believable AI-generated video seemed a distant future to many. Yet, a mere few weeks into the year, OpenAI unveil...

Feb 15, 2024 42m not processed

Fraying Wires: The Decentralization of the Electric Grid

The electric grid needs an update. In this explainer, a16z Partner Ryan McEntush discusses the escalating complexity of the grid, unveils its vulnerabilities...

Feb 8, 2024 1h 59m not processed

Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities with Marc and Ben

"The Ben & Marc Show" features a16z's co-founders Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen. In this episode, Marc and Ben continue their in-depth exploration of the cu...

Feb 2, 2024 1h 19m not processed

Read Write Own: A New Era

with @cdixon @rhhackettWelcome to the web3 with a16z crypto podcast. I'm Robert Hackett, an editor here at a16z crypto, and I'm here with Chris Dixon, foundi...

Jan 29, 2024 34m not processed

The What, Who, and When with IPOs

In 2022 and 2023, US IPOs hit decade lows after the record high of 2021. Now, in 2024, will the IPO window reopen?In this episode, we revisit a conversation ...

Jan 24, 2024 40m not processed

Jobs of the Future

(00:00) - The Future of Jobs(03:15) - Job growth over the last 80 years(05:06) - The shelf-life of jobs(09:11) - Education trends(12:25) - The importance of ...

Jan 18, 2024 34m not processed

Introducing Raising Health: Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy

Big news from a16z: Bio Eats World, our sibling show from a16z Bio+Health, is now Raising Health!We’re excited to share Raising Health’s first episode here w...

Jan 14, 2024 1h 48m not processed

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben

In this one-on-one conversation, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – what has certainly been a hot topic that’s been dominating the news over the pas...

Jan 10, 2024 33m not processed

Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety

Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 perc...

Jan 5, 2024 21m not processed

DNA's Potential to Store the World's Data

Nature’s blueprint – DNA – is an incredibly efficient machine. You cannot see it with the naked eye, yet it can last for hundreds, maybe even millions of yea...

Dec 31, 2023 1h not processed

A Year of Unlocks: 2023 In AI, Healthcare, Housing, and More

As we close off 2023, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite episodes from the last year. From AI hardware, to healthcare regulation, to disrupting the wo...

Dec 26, 2023 1h 21m not processed

The Future of Longevity with Tony Robbins

Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this week’s episode, Marc and Ben are joined by special ...

Dec 22, 2023 47m not processed

2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence

A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligen...

Dec 20, 2023 32m not processed

Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation

General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach. Released in Novembe...

Dec 15, 2023 1h not processed

2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off

Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation i...

Dec 11, 2023 34m not processed

Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open

Arthur Mensch is the co-founder of Mistral and the co-author of Deepmind’s pivotal 2022 "Chinchilla" paper.In September 2023, Mistral released Mistral-7B, an...

Dec 8, 2023 1h 5m not processed

2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability

Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big ideathey ...

Dec 4, 2023 26m not processed

The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data

One topic at the center of the AI universe this week is a potential breakthrough called Q*. Little has been revealed about this OpenAI project, other than it...

Nov 28, 2023 48m not processed

Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus

with @davidmarcus @smc90This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to ship; ...

Nov 23, 2023 51m not processed

When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm

Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult. But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs off gua...

Nov 13, 2023 28m not processed

The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio +...

Nov 6, 2023 39m not processed

From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code

Is it possible to construct a virtual society that authentically replicates human behavior? AI Town, a virtual town experiment where AI residents live, inter...

Oct 30, 2023 39m not processed

Fintech Fuels Global Payments

Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for multinational busin...

Oct 25, 2023 1h 7m not processed

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3SdsfNtSubscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3SclPOrRead the full ...

Oct 13, 2023 33m not processed

A New Era of VR: From the Court to the Classroom

As VR technology inches forward, completely new experiences loom on the horizon.In today’s episode, we expose listeners to the very real-world use cases alre...

Oct 6, 2023 25m not processed

When Will AI Hit the Enterprise? Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi Discuss

Today’s episode continues our coverage from a16z’s recent AI Revolution event. You’ll hear directly from a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks cofounder...

Oct 3, 2023 24m not processed

When AI and Genomics Collide

Today’s episode continues our coverage from a16z’s recent AI Revolution event. You’ll hear a16z Bio & Health GP Vijay Pande speak with Daphne Koller about th...

Sep 28, 2023 31m not processed

AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, An...

Sep 25, 2023 38m not processed

AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, An...

Sep 22, 2023 56m not processed

Engineering Rapidly Reusable Rockets

The space industry is evolving rapidly, with the cost of launching payloads to orbit dropping significantly. But who's investing in this sector, and how will...

Sep 19, 2023 41m not processed

The Evolution of the Satellite Economy

The cost of launching payloads to orbit has dramatically dropped, igniting a space renaissance. In 2022, a record 186 rocket launches (41 more than the previ...

Sep 13, 2023 1h 4m not processed

AI x Crypto

with @alive_eth @danboneh @smc90This week's all-new episode covers the convergence of two important, very top-of-mind trends: AI (artificial intelligence) & ...

Sep 5, 2023 40m not processed

Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?

With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing catch up as they interpret and implement changes.In this...

Aug 31, 2023 48m not processed

A True Second Brain

How many people spend more time organizing their “second brains”, instead of leveraging the information within them? With consumer AI now capable of processi...

Aug 24, 2023 35m not processed

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. They discus...

Aug 18, 2023 42m not processed

From Big Bang to James Webb: Exploring Space with Nobel Laureate John Mather

From artificial limbs to memory foam, many inventions have emerged from our quest to understand the cosmos. In this episode we explore cosmic history, space'...

Aug 14, 2023 40m not processed

Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming

With students learning in more places and different ways than we have ever seen, the pace of change in education is dizzying. Can this progress narrow learni...

Aug 7, 2023 14m not processed

The True Cost of Compute

With software becoming more important than ever, hardware is following suit.As the world generates more data, unlocking the full potential of AI means a cons...

Aug 2, 2023 21m not processed

Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs

With the world constantly generating more data, unlocking the full potential of AI means a constant need for faster and more resilient hardware.In this episo...

Jul 27, 2023 15m not processed

AI Hardware, Explained

In 2011, Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world.” And in the last year, we’ve seen a new wave of generative AI, with some apps becoming some of ...

Jul 21, 2023 46m not processed

Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?

Despite the ease of product building, sustainable growth has become increasingly challenging as many traditional channels no longer deliver the same results....

Jul 12, 2023 41m not processed

Curing the Trust Problem with Mark Cuban

Today’s episode is with Mark Cuban, founder of multiple businesses, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, one of the sharks on Shark Tank, and cofounder of the Mark...

Jul 6, 2023 42m not processed

Inside the 2023 Talent Tsunami: Layoffs, Remote Work & More

Remote work is a big, divisive topic right now. Some think it’s the future, while others think it was an experiment gone wrong.But it’s also not the only way...

Jun 26, 2023 56m not processed

The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?

Self-driving cars have been on the horizon for quite some time. But, they might actually be here.We got to ride around in one all over San Francisco with Way...

Jun 23, 2023 1h 18m not processed

Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3

with @skominers @smc90In this deep dive and tour through key business concepts, from theory to practice, we cover the topics of strategy, competitive advanta...

Jun 16, 2023 1h 3m not processed

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

This week, a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word article that aimed to dispel fears over AI's risks to our humanity – both real ...

Jun 14, 2023 39m not processed

The Hard Things About Scaling: Executive Hiring with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi

The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings...

Jun 9, 2023 1h not processed

The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea

Demand for electric cars is booming. More than 10 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2022, and consumer behavior is changing as more people embrace...

Jun 2, 2023 30m not processed

The Future of Cheese

Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande.Together, they talk abo...

May 25, 2023 1h 6m not processed

The Rise of the Exponential Organization

Many companies today are grappling with a few things: an economic downturn, potential layoffs and restructuring, and trying to keep up with the latest tech t...

May 22, 2023 37m not processed

How Fintech is Reshaping Our $4T Healthcare Industry

In this episode, you’ll hear directly from 6 founders trying to reinvent the healthcare system with the help of Fintech.They’re tackling everything from the ...

May 15, 2023 36m not processed

Embedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking

2022 was a breakout year for AI. While machine learning had already been integrated into applications for millions of users, for many, these tools still felt...

May 9, 2023 49m not processed

When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech

Most people don’t need a reminder of the state of healthcare in America. But it’s not just the consumer that’s hurting. Medical debt is increasing, billions...

May 2, 2023 27m not processed

From Promise to Reality: Inside a16z's Data and AI Forum

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang declared in a recent keynote, “we are in the iPhone moment of AI.”This special episode will give you an inside look into a16z’s Dat...

Apr 24, 2023 39m not processed

Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity

In a recent episode, we delved into the first wave of technology that was used to create digital influencers like 'Lil Miquela back in 2016.Fast forward to t...

Apr 19, 2023 35m not processed

Insights from the Frontlines of Consumer Tech

There is arguably nothing that impacts our daily lives more than consumer technology. This technology can drive our ability to change careers, build an audie...

Apr 13, 2023 1h 16m not processed

Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More

with @amandacassatt @kimbatronic @smc90All about marketing, and web3 -- not just for marketers already in or seeking to enter web3, but also anyone doing com...

Apr 6, 2023 37m not processed

Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants

People often say that building a hardware company is like “playing on hard mode”. Building a hardware company during a global pandemic, with the unpredictabi...

Mar 30, 2023 45m not processed

Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela

You’ve probably heard of ‘Lil Miquela. The 19 year-old Brazilian-American inﬂuencer has millions of followers and has partnered with the likes of Samsung and...

Mar 23, 2023 47m not processed

The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce

Over the last decade, we’ve seen the marketplace model evolve and grow, and this year a16z is back with our fourth edition of the Marketplace100 – a ranking ...

Mar 20, 2023 51m not processed

The Art and Science of Podcasting

It’s both easier and harder than ever to build a successful podcast. In this episode, we chat with Sriram and Aarthi from the Good Time Show, who ventured in...

Mar 9, 2023 38m not processed

Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering

With every new technology, some jobs are lost while others are gained. People often focus on the former, but in this episode we chose to highlight the latter...

Mar 7, 2023 18m not processed

Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey

Starting in the 1960s, technology companies, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, were essential for creating the processors that would eventually launc...

Mar 1, 2023 48m not processed

The Robot Lawyer Resistance

What happens when you don’t have the resources to fight for your rights? Whether it’s a major medical bill or a more minor parking ticket… even if you were i...

Feb 22, 2023 56m not processed

The Challenge of Replicating Reality

What would you do if you believed in an idea but everyone said it would fail, nobody would fund you, and the industry was experiencing a nuclear winter?Despi...

Feb 16, 2023 1h not processed

The 1000x Developer

A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers gene...

Feb 9, 2023 1h 4m not processed

The State of Apps

A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, billion! — since the launch of the App Store in 2008, highlig...

Feb 7, 2023 49m not processed

Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann

Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs, founders,...

Feb 3, 2023 36m not processed

Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

In this cross-over episode from Bio Eats World, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and O...

Jan 27, 2023 1h 8m not processed

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)

At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023.Em...

Jan 24, 2023 1h 22m not processed

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)

At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023.Em...

Jan 19, 2023 22m not processed

The Human Behind the Genius

In this special episode, we share never heard before footage from Steve Wozniak alongside his cofounder and best man, Alex Fielding. Listeners get an inside ...

Jan 12, 2023 1h 14m not processed

Building for Tomorrow

New year, new you! Right?Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the reality is that we often resist change.That’s why we’ve broug...

Jan 10, 2023 57m not processed

Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower

In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, and more. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/c7ScUDYSRYoS...

Jan 6, 2023 1h 20m not processed

Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger

with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between technology, content, and distribution; as well as Bob’s jou...

Dec 27, 2022 43m not processed

Best Clips of 2022

We’ve had some incredible guests join us on the a16z podcast this year, ranging from moonshot entrepreneurs, to top creators, to some of the most forward thi...

Dec 20, 2022 1h 14m not processed

Pay Without Borders with Deel, GitLab, and Safetywing

The predecessor to the office was Florence’s Uffizi Gallery – an admin building to the Medici mercantile empire. That was in… 1560. In the centuries to come,...

Dec 13, 2022 45m not processed

Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization

In this episode, we tackle three carbon removal projects of varying scale, business models, and technical challenges.Biomass pyrolysis via Charm IndustrialAn...

Dec 8, 2022 43m not processed

Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard of the recent FTX scandal.While there’s much still unknown, in this episode we get the unique opport...

Dec 6, 2022 48m not processed

Building a Marketplace for Carbon

In part 1 of our carbon removal series, we talked to Nan Ransohoff — Head of Climate at Stripe — about what it might take to jumpstart the market of carbon r...

Nov 30, 2022 58m not processed

The Economics of Carbon Removal with Nan Ransohoff

What happens when there’s demand for a solution that doesn’t quite exist yet?Today, we bring on Nan Ransohoff to talk about this exact problem as it relates ...

Nov 24, 2022 18m not processed

Ryan Petersen on Rearchitecting the Supply Chain

In today’s episode, we have a special treat. Flexport’s co-CEO and Founder, Ryan Petersen, chats with a16z Growth Editor Das Rush. They start with the questi...

Nov 22, 2022 1h 18m not processed

Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse

When Neal Stephenson coined “the metaverse” three decades ago, his book Snow Crash was found on the shelves of “science fiction”. While the book remains in t...

Nov 17, 2022 1h 15m not processed

The Factory of the Future with Chris Power

Today, we have an episode with Chris Power, the founder and CEO of Hadrian. Hadrian is a company trying to build the most efficient factories on the planet. ...

Nov 15, 2022 2h 45m not processed

Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State

In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan. As the world becomes more digital, it also becomes more distributed. ...

Nov 9, 2022 1h 25m not processed

Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen

With much coverage of technology lined with pessimism, the a16z Podcast returns to highlight the bright side of technology, alongside the founders building i...

Nov 9, 2022 1h 6m not processed

AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

Generative AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have taken the world by storm in recent months, wowing the masses with their uncanny abilit...

Nov 9, 2022 1h 24m not processed

The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah

Many people consider space to be the next frontier and equally an infinite horizon to explore. But the reality is that not all “space” is the same and there ...

Nov 7, 2022 2m not processed

The a16z Podcast Returns

The long-standing (and chart-topping) a16z Podcast returns to cover the most important topics within the world of technology. Brought to you by the minds at ...

Oct 28, 2022 33m not processed

Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?

In this special episode from a16z’s Bio Eats World podcast, general partners Vijay Pande and Jon Lai join bio editorial lead Olivia Webb to discuss the inter...

Oct 19, 2022 1h 6m not processed

Cycles of Computing, Now and Next

This week, we have a special episode for you, from our newest podcast, "web3 with a16z" . This episode features Chris Dixon – founding general partner of a16...

Oct 14, 2022 57m not processed

The Future of Audio

Audio is no longer just audio anymore -- podcasts now pull from new video platforms like TikTok and older ones like radio, user experience is growing and cha...

Oct 6, 2022 59m not processed

Culture as Code

While building and shaping culture is as relevant as ever for startups and companies today, leaders have sought the answers to these questions for hundreds o...

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On Mentorship and Leadership

Behind many great leaders, you’ll usually find a great mentor. The mentor-mentee relationship is often one of the most important and most fulfilling relation...

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Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change

In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology industry,...

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

In this episode from February 2019, Jyoti Bansal, founding CEO of AppDynamics and co-founder of Unusual Ventures, joins a16z general partner Peter Levine, a1...

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The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z

This week, student loans are back in the news, with the administration's announcement of a plan to forgive student loan debt for certain kinds of borrowers. ...

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How to Make Better Decisions

Can you get better at decision-making with practice? Many founders, investors, and builders must make many critical decisions, big and small, every day, and ...

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Learning from Open Source Communities

What can we learn from the evolution of open source communities and how might they be applied to online communities and the creator economy today? Author Nad...

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The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions

Whether it’s moderating a live panel discussion, managing your (virtual) All Hands meeting, or even guiding a cross-functional team to a decision in an impor...

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Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects

What does the success of TikTok's algorithmically-driven product tell us about the future of creators and the creator economy, product design, and innovation...

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From Research to Startup, There and Back Again

In this episode from December 2018, Hennessy, currently the chairman of Alphabet as well as Turing Award-winning computer scientist, joins a16z co-founder Ma...

Jul 13, 2022 34m not processed

Crisis Communications 101

In this hallway-style conversation with a16z's Margit Wennmachers, longtime operating partner for Marketing, and Kim Milosevich, CMO for a16z crypto, open up...

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All About Synthetic Biology

Over the last 20 years, the idea of “designing biology” has gone from science fiction to just science, as the field of synthetic biology has exploded, with a...

Jun 29, 2022 33m not processed

Mining the Data for Cobalt

In this episode from July 2019, Kurt House, CEO and co-founder of Kobold Metals, John Thompson, professor of earth and geosciences at Cornell; and Connie Cha...

Jun 23, 2022 24m not processed

Applying AI in B2B

In this episode from October 2019, People.AI founder and CEO Oleg Rogynskyy and a16z partner Peter Lauten discuss with Das Rush about what the rise of AI in ...

Jun 15, 2022 47m not processed

More from Less: The Environment, Capitalism, and Technology

In this episode from October 2019, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and former a16z podcast showrunner Sonal Choksi bring on MIT economist and bestselling aut...

Jun 8, 2022 37m not processed

Blockchains, crypto, & web3: Connections, models, more

Blockchain, crypto, web3 – these terms get thrown around a lot and sometimes interchangeably, but what are the actual connections between them? And what are ...

Jun 2, 2022 39m not processed

Crypto, an Oral Essay

In this special “innovation overview” episode from April 2021, the a16z crypto team and other experts take you from the ground up of crypto and web3 — from t...

May 26, 2022 33m not processed

Stories of Startup Survival Mode

In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google)...

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Innovating While Scaling: Lessons from Amazon

In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr -- in conversation with a16z's Sonal Chokshi -- go beyond the well-known art...

May 11, 2022 36m not processed

When Gross Margins Matter

Gross margins–which are essentially a company’s revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers–are on...

May 4, 2022 49m not processed

The Founder to Investor Journey

This week, we have a special crossover episode from June 2021: Joel Beasley, host of the Modern CTO podcast, interviews a16z general partner David Ulevitch a...

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Inside Apple Software Design

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 200...

Apr 21, 2022 45m not processed

Tesla and the Nature of Disruption

In this re-run from September 2018, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How disrupt...

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Designing a Culture of Reinvention

In this episode from September 2020, originally recorded for the Commonwealth Club of California, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hasting talks about his new...

Apr 6, 2022 33m not processed

The Basics of Growth Marketing: Engagement & Retention

After achieving product-market fit and starting to gain users, how do startups then avoid the "leaky bucket" problem of losing users as quickly as they gaine...

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The Basics of Growth Marketing: User Acquisition

Once known as “growth hacking”, the concept of Growth has now evolved into an entire discipline that spans marketing, product management, user experience, an...

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The Great Data Debate

Over a decade after the idea of “big data'' was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. But...

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Principles for Work and Life

In the face of great uncertainty, how do you make decisions? Can you really apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future, to navigate seemingl...

Mar 10, 2022 47m not processed

How the Internet Happened

In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com boom, to ...

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Technologies & Threads Through the Fabric of Our Lives

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Feb 20, 2022 48m not processed

Innovating and Deciding, for Companies and People

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Feb 19, 2022 31m not processed

Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative

original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/pleistocenepark-geoengineering-iceagebiome/Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-202...

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M&A, Before and After: What Founders Need to Know

Welcome to the a16z podcast. Today we’re talking about the mindsets and frameworks founders should know about when navigating the mergers and acquisitions or...

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How 'Hyperscalers' are Innovating — and Competing — in the Data Center

Innovation in the data center has been constrained by the traditional model of suppliers providing fixed-function chips that limit how much the biggest data ...

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Kickstarting Network Effects

What are network effects? [1:32]How do you cold start and get your first users? [2:33]Atomic networks and why minimum viable community is more important than...

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NFTs, Explained

Given all the activity and interest recently around crypto and web3, as well as in upcoming holidays and art events, we’re re-running our episode all about N...

Nov 11, 2021 23m not processed

Play-to-Earn Gaming and How Work is Evolving in Web3

In today's episode we’re talking about an emerging model of gaming called play to earn, in which players can make actual money based on how much time and eff...

Nov 2, 2021 16m not processed

On container ships, supply chains, and the physical world

"Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World" -- by Ryan Petersen (June 2021). Bio + essay details/ originally appeared at: https://fu...

Oct 15, 2021 31m not processed

Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users

Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategies for storing crypto assets safely while also allowing holders ...

Oct 2, 2021 52m not processed

Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win

There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it's rare to see a company go publi...

Sep 20, 2021 56m not processed

Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure

There's no question technology played a huge role in the recent/current pandemic, including especially in the plug-and-play engineering and incredibly fast d...

Jul 24, 2021 48m not processed

Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents

There's been a false dichotomy in technology and management lore over the past decade, between "brain" and "brawn", digital and physical, independence and in...

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NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow

Recently, a16z and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research hosted the NFT Virtual Summit, which brought together leading thinkers and builders on the top...

May 2, 2021 36m not processed

Man, Mosquito, Malaria Vaccine

Playing out against the backdrop of a global pandemic (including recent massive surges in regions around the world) is the news that came out a week ago that...

Apr 17, 2021 38m not processed

Crypto, an Oral Essay

This is a special episode of the a16z podcast — it's an audio history, told through the voices of the a16z crypto team, about what crypto is, how it really w...

Apr 8, 2021 26m not processed

On Monetizing Community with Patreon Cofounder Sam Yam

It's clear from the growth of Patreon, Substack, TikTok, Clubhouse and many more that the power of the Creator Economy continues to build. These platforms sh...

Apr 3, 2021 33m not processed

The Creator Economy: NFTs and Beyond

In today’s episode of the a16z Podcast, we’re talking about the Creator Economy, and how NFTs (but not just NFTS!) are making it possible for artists, musici...

Mar 28, 2021 56m not processed

All about NFTs

This episode is all about NFTs. It seems like nothing has caught on and spread into mainstream interest like NFTs, where one hears everything from "I've neve...

Mar 24, 2021 27m not processed

The Next Wave of Marketplace Startups

In the tech world, marketplaces are a hot topic. That term—marketplace—encompasses a huge swath of services we use every day, from grocery delivery to online...

Mar 18, 2021 12m not processed

The Third Vaccine, and Vaccine Choice

https://a16z.com/2021/03/15/16-minutes-58-the-johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-covid-efficacy-rates/ Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind ...

Mar 9, 2021 59m not processed

Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are

This podcast -- which was recorded at the Computer History Museum in a live event, before the pandemic (first published in December 2019) is all about how co...

Feb 28, 2021 59m not processed

Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz

Boss Talk is a weekly live show on Clubhouse, where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, managemen...

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All About Ransomware

In just the last couple years, ransomware has grown into a multibillion dollar industry. It has evolved from taking systems and servers hostage to stealing d...

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One on One with Marc and Ben

On social audio app Clubhouse, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are hosting a new live show called "One on One with A and Z", where they go deep on questions...

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Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More

When you hear stories about Amazon's "invention machine" -- which led to a company with not just one or two products but several successful diverse lines of ...

Feb 1, 2021 47m not processed

Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How

In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes -- past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230, T...

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Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects

In recent years, there’s been a shift in how we think about psychedelics – from drugs of abuse and recreation, to powerful drugs for treating neuropsychiatri...

Jan 13, 2021 33m not processed

Developers as Creatives

The rise of developers -- as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class -- is a direct result of "software eating the world", and of key shifts in IT from o...

Jan 9, 2021 39m not processed

Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond

All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as "one of the clearest-...

Jan 6, 2021 30m not processed

Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next

If software’s eating the world -- and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries -- why have some industrie...

Dec 24, 2020 51m not processed

Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)

"In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”... so it's unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford Englis...

Dec 21, 2020 40m not processed

The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation

In this special episode of Bio Eats World -- which aired right after the FDA authorized Moderna's mRNA vaccine for emergency use -- Moderna CEO Stephane Banc...

Dec 14, 2020 59m not processed

The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech

This episode features two relevant but previously recorded episodes, discussing the relevance of the Paycheck Protection Program (or PPP) from the Small Busi...

Dec 7, 2020 24m not processed

The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech

The intersection of social and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money online—have given way to an ambitious new wave of finan...

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On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs

There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups -- go through, whether it's product-sales-etc. or pioneer to settler. In any...

Nov 26, 2020 20m not processed

On Food As Medicine (A Holiday Snack)

What happens if we treat food as a medicine in the healthcare system: How, where, and who (pays)? What role can technology play in increasing access, distrib...

Nov 22, 2020 20m not processed

Crypto Creators: On Art Galleries to 'Tokenized' Collectibles

This episode features Q&As with two artists who are exploring crypto-powered auction sites and marketplaces – this is part of our ongoing series on the creat...

Nov 20, 2020 21m not processed

What to Know about Those Vaccines

A vaccine for COVID seems to be (almost) here… or is it? What’s hype/ what’s real beyond the headlines (and beyond the press release), when it comes to the a...

Nov 16, 2020 38m not processed

The Social Serendipity of Cloud Gaming

True cloud-native games—those exclusive to and solely playable within the cloud—are poised to revolutionize gameplay and unlock new avenues of hyper-personal...

Nov 13, 2020 26m not processed

The Great Data Debate

Lakes v. warehouses, analytics v. AI/ML, SQL v. everything else... As the technical capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses converge, are the separate...

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How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!)

How to moderate good, productive discussions and navigate tricky conversations is top of mind -- whether doing a panel, conducting a live event, presenting a...

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Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they're indistinguishable from it." Th...

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Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures

Data, data, data – it’s long been a buzzword in the industry, whether big data, streaming data, data analytics, data science, even AI & machine learning — bu...

Oct 19, 2020 32m not processed

Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z

Gen Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—now makes up 35 percent of the population and represent $143 billion dollars in spending power. This episode is all ab...

Oct 14, 2020 56m not processed

The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity

We've already talked a lot about podcasting, both evolution of the industry as well as the form, but where are we going with the future of audio, more broadl...

Oct 11, 2020 28m not processed

Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups

Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind a16z on LinkedInListen to the a16z Show on SpotifyListen to the a16z Show on Apple PodcastsFollo...

Oct 8, 2020 44m not processed

How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

It seems like investors are especially obsessed with the psychology of decision making -- high stakes, after all -- but all kinds of decisions, whether in li...

Oct 1, 2020 30m not processed

Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials

Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to f...

Sep 27, 2020 25m not processed

Degrading Drugs for Problem Proteins: Journal Club now on Bio Eats World (ep 2)

Welcome to the second episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is technology. Bio is breaking out of the lab and clinic and into ...

Sep 23, 2020 28m not processed

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1)

Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is technology. Bio is breaking out of the lab and clinic and into o...

Sep 20, 2020 37m not processed

TikTok & Beyond: The Algorithm Question, The Future of Product

With the U.S. tech partnership for TikTok being finalized, what happens if source code is excluded (and more specifically, the For You Page algorithm), given...

Sep 18, 2020 33m not processed

The New Fan Club: Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto)

Today’s episode, part two in our two-part series on the Creator Economy, focuses on the new potential revenue streams and fan-engagement models opened up by ...

Sep 17, 2020 34m not processed

So You Want to Launch a Newsletter: Tips From Substack Writers

This episode, part one in a two-part series on the Creator Economy, explores the process and economics behind creating an independent newsletter. In this can...

Sep 15, 2020 42m not processed

Designing a Culture of Reinvention

Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself... twice – first, when ...

Sep 12, 2020 38m not processed

Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz

"I'm in a movie, but it's the wrong movie."For better or for worse, we tell the story of entrepreneurs as one of the mythical hero's journey: that's there's ...

Sep 11, 2020 58m not processed

The Question of Education

Monopoly, oligopoly, cartel. All three of those words can describe the (not so) modern education system today, given the cost structures, economics, and accr...

Sep 4, 2020 40m not processed

Pandemic Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect?

This episode examines the potential for misuse and fraud among those applying for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—and how fintech and software provide ...

Aug 30, 2020 33m not processed

Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond

Okay, so we know community is important -- whether for developer relations for your product or other types of communities -- but how do we measure the succes...

Aug 21, 2020 44m not processed

Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses

There is no spoon. Or rather, “There is no such thing as ‘data’, there’s just frozen models”, argues Peter Wang, the co-founder and CEO of Anaconda — who als...

Aug 17, 2020 48m not processed

Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate

This episode is all about education and technology, a topic that’s especially top of mind this week as students in much of the country return to school—virtu...

Aug 14, 2020 56m not processed

On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from (what’s been traditionally been up to) 12 years or so of vaccine development...

Aug 10, 2020 45m not processed

Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans

In this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building. Today’s topic: How do you create...

Aug 9, 2020 18m not processed

Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T

CAR T therapy is a groundbreaking medicine that uses engineered T cells to attack cancer. But CAR T cells (that is, chimeric antigen receptor T cells) can be...

Aug 2, 2020 47m not processed

Working, Making, Creating in Public... and Private

We're living in an unprecedented era of online collaboration, coordination, and creation. All kinds of people are coming together -- whether in an open sourc...

Jul 30, 2020 33m not processed

GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI

In this episode -- cross posted from our 16 Minutes show feed -- we cover all the buzz around GPT-3, the pre-trained machine learning model from OpenAI that’...

Jul 22, 2020 23m not processed

Taking the Pulse on Medical Device Security

Many don’t realize we even need to think about the possibility of security hacks when it comes to things like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and more. But when b...

Jul 19, 2020 17m not processed

Journal Club: A New Path to Antibiotic Resistance

Ever since the discovery of antibiotics, microbiologists have worried about and studied how bacteria acquire resistance to these drugs. Adding to the complex...

Jul 18, 2020 36m not processed

Cybercrime, Incorporated

A dive into the sociological, operational, and tactical realities of this murky underworld, Lusthaus and de la Garza discuss who the players are, what they a...

Jul 15, 2020 29m not processed

How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change

Dr. Marty Makary—surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and health policy and innovation expert—has long been a passionate advoc...

Jul 13, 2020 47m not processed

Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'

More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pruden of...

Jul 11, 2020 18m not processed

Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship

In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits through ...

Jul 11, 2020 23m not processed

Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?

Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performance with...

Jul 7, 2020 6m not processed

Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare

"Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)" by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018. You can als...

Jul 7, 2020 20m not processed

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015. You can also find and share this essay at ...

Jul 7, 2020 15m not processed

Every Company Is a Fintech Company

"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.You can also find and s...

Jul 7, 2020 0m not processed

Read-Alouds, Continued

Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!).The...

Jul 5, 2020 9m not processed

Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law

Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernstein and ...

Jun 30, 2020 34m not processed

Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on virology a...

Jun 28, 2020 17m not processed

Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial

In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescription video ...

Jun 27, 2020 36m not processed

Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You

Gross margins are essentially a company's revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers, and it's on...

Jun 24, 2020 23m not processed

Building Products for Power Users

As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and allow the...

Jun 21, 2020 20m not processed

Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast

In this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and Lauren Richardson discuss research that aims to enhance the efficienc...

Jun 17, 2020 31m not processed

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)

This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focused on prospective home buyers, sellers, and e...

Jun 16, 2020 24m not processed

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1)

This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, sellers, and ex...

Jun 14, 2020 32m not processed

World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems

Proteins are molecular machines that must first assemble themselves to function. But how does a protein, which is produced as a linear string of amino acids,...

Jun 12, 2020 26m not processed

The Return of Home-based Healthcare

The way we deliver healthcare has changed enormously over the last century, shifting from house calls by doctors to your own to institutionalized settings li...

Jun 11, 2020 30m not processed

The Future of Primary Care

Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system, but in some ways never set up for success to begin with. We need a new operating system...

Jun 9, 2020 40m not processed

All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say

We cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in the cont...

Jun 4, 2020 1h 1m not processed

What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal

Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal just...

May 29, 2020 21m not processed

SaaS Go-to-Upmarket

For a SaaS company, it's easier to move upmarket than down, and this gives SaaS startups the advantage against incumbents. In this episode, David Ulevitch a...

May 26, 2020 19m not processed

New Fan Engagement Models for Athletes and Influencers

Today’s episode is about a practical application of crypto — namely, the way it can “tokenize” fandom. More broadly, it’s about fan engagement, and the incre...

May 24, 2020 43m not processed

Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!

Our understanding of the human brain and its disorders has always been limited by our lack of access to living, human, developing brain tissue. For the first...

May 23, 2020 34m not processed

Pandemics: Early Detection, Networks, Spreaders

Pandemics are predictable; what's not predictable is the intensity, or the precise timing of arrival. That's where early detection -- not just rapid warning ...

May 20, 2020 1h 6m not processed

Podcasting and the Future of Audio

This podcast (first recorded in 2019, now being rerun) -- is a podcast about podcasting: But it's really all about audio. A lot's changed... and a lot hasn't...

May 15, 2020 36m not processed

Growth in Turbulent Times

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acq...

May 15, 2020 17m not processed

Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection

In this episode of a16z bio Journal Club, general partner Vijay Pande, bio deal team partner Andy Tran, and bio editor Lauren Richardson discuss a novel CRIS...

May 7, 2020 20m not processed

What's Next in Gaming

Video game technology has evolved into a global phenomenon that extends far beyond entertainment. In this episode, John Riccitiello, CEO of the game software...

May 6, 2020 28m not processed

Undruggable Drugs

In this episode of the a16z Podcast, we take a deep dive into the world of drug development—specifically "undruggable drugs": a category of protein, protein ...

May 2, 2020 13m not processed

The Next Generation of Cultural Influencers in Tech

This episode—which originally took place as a live event—is a conversation between Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner and a16z Cultural Leadership Fund...

Apr 29, 2020 20m not processed

The Chief Security Officer in (and out of) a Crisis

The Chief Security Officer (CSO/CISO) used to manage on-premise servers, now the information they have to secure has migrated to the cloud. As the responsibi...

Apr 26, 2020 24m not processed

Journal Club: Finding New Antibiotics with Machine Learning, What Coronavirus Structures Tell Us

a16z Journal Club (part of the a16z Podcast), curates and covers recent advances from the scientific literature -- what papers we’re reading, and why they ma...

Apr 26, 2020 1m not processed

Introducing Journal Club

Announcing a16z Journal Club, a new show where we curate and discuss recent research papers with a16z experts and others. This new show continues the a16z Po...

Apr 24, 2020 40m not processed

What the Narrow Waist of the Internet Means for Innovation Today

Here is Ali's tweetstorm on the Narrow Waist of Blockchain Computing Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind a16z on LinkedInListen to ...

Apr 21, 2020 12m not processed

IT'S TIME TO BUILD

“It's Time to Build” by Marc Andreessen. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/build Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFin...

Apr 21, 2020 0m not processed

Introducing Read Alouds

We wanted to let you know about a special new series of posts occasionally read out loud from us (you can learn more about the why and why now in episode #5...

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The Passion Economy: Redefining Work

This episode of the a16z Podcast covers the the rise of online platforms that enable people to make a living off their unique interests and skills. It's a tr...

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When Bad Policy = Bad Business Models = Bad Public Health

with @JorgeCondeBio, @julesyoo, and @omnivorousreadIn some ways, the coronavirus feels like it came out of nowhere—a kind of Black Swan event. But at the sam...

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Moving to Remote Development (and Work)

From agile project management to asynchronous collaboration, development teams have pioneered many of the tools and best practices for remote work. However, ...

Apr 10, 2020 36m not processed

Virtual Oncology

with @vintweeta @pbcancerdoc @sumitshahmd @omnivorousreadCoronavirus is now disrupting the entire health care system, not just because of the burden of deali...

Apr 7, 2020 37m not processed

The Story of Schizophrenia

Descriptions of the mental illness we today call schizophrenia are as old as humankind itself. And more than likely, we are are all familiar with this diseas...

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Navigating the Numbers

For any business, there are three core financial statements – the income or P&L statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement. While these statem...

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Gaming and Livestreaming: Connecting While Distancing

Since social distancing measures were first put in place, time spent gaming has gone up—way up. According to a recent report by Verizon, video game usage in ...

Apr 1, 2020 28m not processed

The Hustlers's Guide to Suing the Man

This is the next cycle (Q1 2020) of Hustlin' Tech, a podcast series (from the a16z Podcast) about technology platforms that create opportunities for people. ...

Apr 1, 2020 36m not processed

The Hustler's Guide to Elder Care

This is the next cycle (Q1 2020) of Hustlin' Tech, a podcast series (from the a16z Podcast) about technology platforms that create opportunities for people. ...

Mar 30, 2020 37m not processed

The Hustler's Guide to Nursing Jobs

This is the next cycle (Q1 2020) of Hustlin' Tech, a podcast series (from the a16z Podcast) about technology platforms that create opportunities for people. ...

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Hustlin' Tech, Round Two

This is the next cycle of Hustlin' Tech -- a podcast series co-hosted by bestselling authors, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz; and Shaka Senghor, a leading voic...

Mar 27, 2020 21m not processed

Security When the Workforce Goes Remote

We are in the midst of a rapid and unprecedented shift to remote work. What does it mean for security when the airgap between work and life is gone? How prep...

Mar 25, 2020 18m not processed

The Delivery-Optimized Future of Food

The spike in online ordering and food delivery—a trend that's particularly relevant now—is evidence of how tech is fundamentally changing how and what we eat...

Mar 23, 2020 19m not processed

Remote Work and Our New Reality

Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind a16z on LinkedInListen to the a16z Show on SpotifyListen to the a16z Show on Apple PodcastsFollo...

Mar 19, 2020 28m not processed

When Medicine Goes Virtual

We’re at a moment where we are now seeing medicine go virtual faster, and at a scale that it has never done before. In this conversation, a16z bio general p...

Mar 17, 2020 35m not processed

Labs for Diagnostics: Then, Now, and Next

A lot's going on in the world of healthcare right now, and one topic that's especially relevant is how diagnostic labs work. In this episode with Dave King, ...

Mar 14, 2020 13m not processed

How a16z's Crypto Startup School Went Remote

On February 21, Andreessen Horowitz kicked off its very first Crypto Startup School, with 45 students from around the U.S. and three countries gathering to l...

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When Fintech Meets Social

The last financial crisis prompted many consumers to reassess their banking expectations—none more so than millennials and Gen-Z-ers. While revealing one's f...

Mar 6, 2020 45m not processed

Innovation Through Software Development and IT

One of the recurring themes we talk about a lot on the a16z Podcast is how software changes organizations, and vice versa... More broadly: it’s really about ...

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The Open Source CIO

In 2014, in "Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat," Peter Levine argued that Red Hat’s open source business model of commercializing support and services ...

Feb 27, 2020 21m not processed

Novel Coronavirus Updates: How Healthcare System, Tests Work; More

This episode covers the following -- since our previous deep-dive on the novel coronavirus outbreak -- including:practical implications for the U.S. healthca...

Feb 20, 2020 33m not processed

Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement

It's "Marketplaces Week" for us at a16z, thanks to our consumer team releasing a new index of the next industry-defining marketplaces, the Marketplace 100. ...

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Tough Love, Global Diplomacy, and Lessons on Leadership

Susan shares how she learned to leverage the characteristics of her personality early in her career as assistant secretary of state [2:05]One of the importan...

Feb 7, 2020 28m not processed

Building the First CAR T Company

with @OzAzamTmunity1, @JorgeCondeBio, and @omnivorousreadCAR T therapy, the groundbreaking new medicines that uses engineered T-cells to attack cancer, has b...

Feb 4, 2020 33m not processed

Rebel Talent

When we think about rebellious behavior in the context of organizations and companies, we tend to think of rebels as trouble-makers, rabble-rousers; in other...

Jan 30, 2020 19m not processed

All about the Coronavirus

This episode of 16 Minutes on the news from a16z is all about the recent coronavirus outbreak -- or rather, a new type of coronavirus called 2019-nCoV for 20...

Jan 27, 2020 15m not processed

The Truth about 1000 True Fans + Pricing Our Attention

The idea of "1000 true fans" -- first proposed by Kevin Kelly in 2008 and later updated for Tools of Titans -- argued that to be a successful creator, you do...

Jan 27, 2020 40m not processed

Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating

We've been financing good writing with bad advertising -- and "attention monsters" (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what happens when the technology...

Jan 19, 2020 41m not processed

What's Next for the Internet?

How can we evolve the web for a better future? Has the web become a mature platform — or are we still in the early days of knowing what it can do and what ro...

Jan 16, 2020 26m not processed

Controlling AI

AI can do a lot of specific tasks as well as, or even better than, humans can — for example, it can more accurately classify images, more efficiently process...

Jan 14, 2020 44m not processed

Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health

The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of ...

Jan 11, 2020 59m not processed

On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation

How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation? How does an enterprise at such vast...

Jan 6, 2020 19m not processed

Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pie...

Jan 2, 2020 44m not processed

Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future

Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the begi...

Dec 23, 2019 46m not processed

What to Know about CFIUS

When innovation and capital go global, so do restrictions on trade, foreign investment, and more. Over the past couple years, U.S. policymakers have expanded...

Dec 19, 2019 27m not processed

Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt?

A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a high enoug...

Dec 17, 2019 34m not processed

Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want

Hollywood and Silicon Valley seem so different, but are more alike than we think. What challenges do tech startup founders and other creative founders -- lik...

Dec 17, 2019 44m not processed

The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape

As part of a new series where we will share select a16z partner appearances on other podcasts with our audience here, this episode is cross-posted from the n...

Dec 11, 2019 44m not processed

Direct Listings, Myths and Facts

We’ve covered a lot of the strategic financing milestones for startups seeking to build a sustainable and enduring business -- from mindsets for startup fund...

Dec 7, 2019 59m not processed

The Stories and Code of Culture Change

There are some common tropes that can kill your company culture -- whether it's that corporate values can be weaponized; "fake it til you make it"; the "real...

Dec 3, 2019 33m not processed

Of Container Ships, Supply Chains, and Retail

This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our evergreen classics on the tails of the world's largest desi...

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Nursing Today, From the Bedside and Beyond

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon”, diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld once observed -- and that may be m...

Nov 27, 2019 47m not processed

How We Podcast

"Hi everyone, welcome to the a16z Podcast..." ... and welcome to our 500th episode, where, for the first time, we reveal behind-the-scenes details and the ba...

Nov 20, 2019 35m not processed

Brand Building Ideas… and People

Many technical founders, academics, and other experts often believe that great products -- or great ideas! -- sell themselves, without any extra effort or ma...

Nov 2, 2019 22m not processed

Come for the Games, Stay for the Party

The games industry is in the midst of a tectonic shift. Powered by platform convergence, games-as-a-service, and user-generated content, modern video games—w...

Oct 24, 2019 24m not processed

AI in B2B

Consumer software may have adopted and incorporated AI ahead of enterprise software, where the data is more proprietary, and the market is a few thousand com...

Oct 21, 2019 35m not processed

Free Software and Open Source Business

Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business. In this p...

Oct 15, 2019 38m not processed

Of Emojis and Innovation

This rerun podcast (first recorded in 2015, now being rerun as one of our evergreen classics/ favorites) -- is ALL about emoji. But it's really about how inn...

Oct 4, 2019 46m not processed

The Environment, Capitalism, Technology

It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow -- and progress -- was through destroying the environment. Sure, the Industrial Revolution brought about...

Sep 30, 2019 22m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #10: Amazon Healthcare, Oculus VR/AR, Google Quantum Supremacy?

Our news podcast, 16 Minutes -- where we quickly cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z way (why are these topics in the news; what's real, what's hyp...

Sep 28, 2019 42m not processed

New Business Models for Gaming, Collaboration, Creativity

The combination of cloud, social, and mobile took gaming beyond a small base of just console- and PC-gamers to a massive player base. But the underlying busi...

Sep 23, 2019 19m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #9: All the Recent Phone Hacks

This is episode #9 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they’re in the news; why they matte...

Sep 17, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Biology of Pain

What is the nature of physical pain? Why do we even experience it? Is there one type, or many? Do people experience pain differently? What is happening in ou...

Sep 16, 2019 20m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #8: Apple Camera, Services; Wearables - Where are We

with @benedictevans @vijaypande and @smc90 This is episode #8 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way...

Sep 6, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: How to Pay for Healthcare Based on Health

There's been a lot of talk about the need for our healthcare system to shift away from volume and fee-for-service, where you pay by appointment, procedure, e...

Sep 6, 2019 40m not processed

The Hustler's Guide to the Hair Business

with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor @diishanimira @therealritabee Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms -...

Sep 6, 2019 30m not processed

The Hustler's Guide to Getting Paid

with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor ram @earnin & vaughn ferguson Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms —...

Sep 6, 2019 37m not processed

The Hustler's Guide to Preschool

with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor @8ennett & sherie james Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms -- and ...

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Introducing Hustlin' Tech

We're excited to introduce a new podcast series hosted by a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Shaka Senghor, a leading voice in criminal justice reform and best...

Sep 2, 2019 1h 8m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan!

"You cannot be IN it... and not be OF it." Dapper Dan a.k.a. Daniel Day shares his remarkable history and story of defining an era of fashion and cultural in...

Aug 29, 2019 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: From the Internet's Past to the Future of Crypto

What can we learn from the history of the internet for the future of crypto? In this episode of the a16z Podcast, general partner Katie Haun interviews a16z ...

Aug 28, 2019 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: What to Know about FedRAMP

with @ldhawke and @stevesi The government wants to get onto the cloud! But how do they assess the levels of risk in adopting specific cloud products, and whi...

Aug 25, 2019 17m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment

with @illscience and @smc90 This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're...

Aug 15, 2019 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Software has eaten the world...and healthcare is next

Back in 2011, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen first made the bold claim that software would eat the world. In this episode (originally recorded as part of an ...

Aug 12, 2019 17m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #6: Health Claims, Corporate Breaches

with @julesyoo @smc90 This is episode #6 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the...

Aug 11, 2019 16m not processed

16 Minutes on the News #5: Fed Real-time Payments, Death of Retail

with @astrange @jeff_jordan and @smc90 This is episode #5 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- w...

Aug 4, 2019 18m not processed

16 Minutes on the News: The Opioid Crisis

with @jorgecondebio @vijaypande and @smc90 This is episode #4 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way ...

Aug 4, 2019 18m not processed

16 Minutes on the News: Fortnite, Esports, Gaming, and Entertainment

with @andrewchen @dcoolican and @smc90 This is episode #3 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- w...

Jul 28, 2019 19m not processed

16 Minutes on the News: Mobile Malware, Drug Pricing

with @martin_casado @jorgeconde @jayrughani and @smc90 This is episode #2 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, t...

Jul 23, 2019 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices

with Kurt House (@kurtzhouse), John Thompson, Connie Chan (@conniechan) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The exploration for and mining of certain metals h...

Jul 21, 2019 20m not processed

16 Minutes on the News: Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

with @vijaypande @conniechan @jpm25 and @smc90 Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, th...

Jul 19, 2019 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: How To Get The Most From Your Board

In this final of a 3-part series (which originally aired as YouTube videos) on working with venture investors, a16z Managing Partner Scott Kupor shares best ...

Jul 18, 2019 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: How To Raise Money From A Venture Investor

So you've decided raising venture capital is the best fundraising strategy for your startup. Now what? In this second of a 3-part series, a16z Managing Partn...

Jul 17, 2019 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: How To Understand And Choose A Venture Investor

Incentives matter. So understanding the incentives of venture capitalists will help you decide if raising money from a venture investor makes sense for your ...

Jul 4, 2019 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Software, to Talent and Culture

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andr...

Jul 4, 2019 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, Again

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding ...

Jul 4, 2019 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Software Eating the World

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), Scott Kupor (@skupor), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since ...

Jul 4, 2019 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Disruption Theory

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michael Copeland Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Ho...

Jun 28, 2019 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: Entrepreneurs, Then and Now

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) A lot in technology -- and venture -- happens in decades. New c...

Jun 26, 2019 15m not processed

a16z Podcast: Damage-free Genome Editing -- Next in CRISPR

Two recent scientific journal papers show what's possible when CRISPR moves from cutting DNA tool to a full-fledged platform -- expanding its toolkit for med...

Jun 25, 2019 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud

Synthetic fraud—yes, it's a thing: a new evolution of consumer fraud that’s been emerging in financial services, to the tune of $1-$2B a year. In this episod...

Jun 19, 2019 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: The History and Future of Machine Learning

How have we gotten to where were are with machine learning? Where are we going? a16z Operating Partner Frank Chen and Carnegie Mellon professor Tom Mitchell ...

Jun 15, 2019 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Politics of Technology

with Tony Blair (@InstituteGC), Scott Kupor (@skupor), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) If the current pace of tech change is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19...

Jun 13, 2019 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: AI and Your Doctor, Today and Tomorrow

with Eric Topol (@EricTopol) and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) Artificial intelligence is coming to the doctor’s office. In this episode, Dr. Eric Topol, cardiol...

Jun 10, 2019 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan

Want actionable advice from a founder who has built multiple tech companies and has invested the time to be open, introspective, and transparent about lesson...

Jun 6, 2019 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Deep Learning for the Life Sciences

with Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) and Bharath Ramsundar Deep learning has arrived in the life sciences: every week, it seems, a new published study comes out......

Jun 3, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Power of Restorative Justice

with Van Jones (@VanJones68), Shaka Senghor (@ShakaSeghnor), and Chris Lyons (@clyons) True redemption can be hard to come by in our justice system today. An...

May 30, 2019 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Economics of Expensive Medicines

with Andrew Lo (@AndrewWLo) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio) The advent of new gene and cell therapies are beginning to approach that holy grail of medicine—...

May 27, 2019 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Collectively Driving Change

with Laurene Powell Jobs (@LaurenePowell) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Laurene Powell Jobs is, among many other things, founder and President of the Emerson...

May 20, 2019 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: What Time Is It? From Technical to Product to Sales CEO

with David Ulevitch (@davidu) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Since the startup (and founder) journey doesn't go neatly linear from technical to product to sales,...

May 13, 2019 52m not processed

a16z Podcast: Five Open Problems Toward Building a Blockchain Computer

Do you sometimes wish you had been born in a different decade so you could have worked on the fundamental building blocks of modern computing? How fun, chall...

May 11, 2019 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Guide to Making Data-Based Decisions in Health, Parenting... and Life

with Emily Oster (@ProfEmilyOster) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Are chia seeds actually that good for you? Will Vitamin E keep you healthy? Will breast...

May 8, 2019 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets

with @annieduke, @pmarca, and @smc90 Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage -- and every individual, whether for themselves or others ...

May 7, 2019 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing

In a followup to one of our most popular podcast episodes which originally aired in April 2017 (https://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoi...

Apr 29, 2019 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future Of Decision-Making—3 Startup Opportunities

As companies digitize, they change the way they make decisions: decisions are made lower in the organization, based on data, and increasingly automated. This...

Apr 25, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: So You Wanna Build a Software Company in Healthcare?

with Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio), Julie Yoo (@julesyoo), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Building a software company in healthcare is hard -- and comes a...

Apr 19, 2019 1h 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Inside Apple Software Design

Join longtime Apple software engineer Ken Kocienda in conversation with a16z Deal and Research operating partner Frank Chen for an insider’s account of how A...

Apr 4, 2019 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents

In this episode of the a16z Podcast -- which originally aired as a video on YouTube -- general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the C...

Apr 3, 2019 1h 7m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Podcast About Podcasting

with Nick Quah (@nwquah), Connie Chan (@conniechan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) It's a podcast about podcasting! About the state of the industry, that is. Be...

Mar 30, 2019 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?

with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) What does Apple's recent event — in which a range of new services was announced, from App...

Mar 25, 2019 47m not processed

a16z Podcast: Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots

with Safi Bahcall (@safibahcall), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) A "moonshot" is a destination (like going to the moon, quite literall...

Mar 16, 2019 1h 6m not processed

a16z Podcast: For the Billions of Creatives Out There

with Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The writer-showrunner is a relatively new phenomenon in TV, as ...

Mar 12, 2019 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Lessons Learned from Chinese Education Startups

When people talk about trends in education technology, they often focus on how to disrupt higher education in the U.S., whether it's about breaking free of t...

Feb 26, 2019 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: What's in the Water at the George Church Lab?

with George Church (@geochurch) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio) Renowned scientist George Church is known for his groundbreaking work and methods used for t...

Feb 24, 2019 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future

with Peter Ludwig, Qasar Younis (@qasar), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) When people talk about autonomous vehicles, we hear everything from "we're much closer t...

Feb 17, 2019 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Gaming Goes Mainstream

Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard (a merger he engineered); it's one of only two video gaming companies in the Fortune 500, and the largest game...

Feb 16, 2019 47m not processed

a16z Podcast: Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)

with Ryan Caldbeck (@ryan_caldbeck), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) It's clear that all kinds of commerce companies and consumer prod...

Feb 14, 2019 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: To All the Robots I've Loved Before

with Kate Darling (@grok_) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We already know that we have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize robots. But beyond just pro...

Feb 12, 2019 45m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)

with Chris Burniske (@cburniske), Joel Monegro (@jmonegro), Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) When designing cryptonetworks -- reall...

Feb 10, 2019 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks

with Phil Daian (@phildaian) and Ali Yahya (@ali01) Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of s...

Feb 3, 2019 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)

with Jyoti Bansal (@jyotibansalsf), Peter Levine, Satish Talluri (@satishtalluri), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the toughest challenges for founders -- ...

Jan 30, 2019 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales

with Mark Leslie (@mleslie45) and Peter Levine What does it actually take to win at enterprise sales? In this episode, Mark Leslie, former CEO and chairman a...

Jan 30, 2019 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise

with Peter Levine, Bob Tinker, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For consumer companies, often when the holy grail of product-market fit is achieved, the co...

Jan 26, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer

Veterinary oncology can inform human oncology, and vice versa -- providing a better model for looking at drug performance, interrelationships, and more. Espe...

Jan 17, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Business of Cybercrime

with Joel de la Garza, Jonathan Lusthaus, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of the cybercriminal as lone wolf or hobby hacker is no longer much of ...

Jan 17, 2019 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond

with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) puts the latest and greatest developments...

Jan 16, 2019 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Dark Data in Healthcare

with Susannah Fox (@susannahfox), Anil Sethi (@anilsethiusa / @ciitizencorp), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The problem of "dark data...

Jan 14, 2019 59m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines

with Vas Narasimhan (@vasnarasimhan), Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)On average, only 1 out of 20 medicin...

Jan 11, 2019 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: All About Synthetic Biology

with James J. Collins, Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of 'designing biology' -- once science fiction -- has over the ...

Jan 9, 2019 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: What’s Next for Marketplace Startups (Hint: Services)

The past and future of marketplace startups -- where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers and sellers of, well, just abou...

Dec 29, 2018 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) This episode of the a16z Podcast features the rare combination of a1...

Dec 24, 2018 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: How the Internet Happened

In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com boom, to ...

Dec 21, 2018 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: All About Stablecoins

with Andy Milenius (@realzandy), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important...

Dec 21, 2018 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health

with Bernard J. Tyson (@bernardjtyson) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit ...

Dec 18, 2018 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality

with Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Where are we, really, right now -- in terms of what we can/ can't ...

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a16z Podcast: On Marrying Entertainment and Technology

with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman (@MegWhitman), and Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) In this episode of the a16z Podcast, based on a discussion that took place ...

Nov 21, 2018 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots

with Boris Sofman (@bsofman), Dave Touretzky (@DaveTouretzky), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We're just now beginning to truly see the the first 'real' ...

Nov 19, 2018 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots

with Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Is it possible that ancient Greeks and Romans dreamed of technological innovations like robo...

Nov 17, 2018 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: M&A and Innovation, Inside Out

with Stephanie Cohen and Martin Casado (@martin_casado) As chief strategy officer of Goldman Sachs (and former global head of financial sponsors M&A), Stepha...

Nov 5, 2018 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Automation + Work, Human + Machine

with Prasad Akella, Paul Daughtery (@pauldaugh) and Frank Chen (@withfries2) What is different on that factory floor from Henry Ford to today? In this conver...

Oct 19, 2018 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Eyeballs on the Game

with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Yogi Roth (@YogiRoth), Zack Weiner and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For decades, the increasing value of sports teams, rig...

Oct 8, 2018 55m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Research to Startup, There and Back Again

The period from 2000-2016 was one of the best of times and worst of times for tech and the Valley (dotcom, financial crisis, Google IPO, Facebook founded, un...

Sep 27, 2018 39m not processed

a16z Podcast: How to Manage a PR Agency

with Shannon (Stubo) Brayton (@sstubo), Margit Wennmachers (@wennmachers), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the company building topics that’s surprisingly ...

Sep 25, 2018 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: New Upstarts in an Old Industry

with Michael Ovitz (@michaelovitz), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) When Michael Ovitz co-founded the Hollywood talent agency C...

Sep 24, 2018 54m not processed

a16z Podcast: Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'

with Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's all sorts of interesting tech trends happening right now, including AI, VR/AR, self-driving ...

Sep 17, 2018 43m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption

with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofsky (@SteveSi) In another of our hallway conversation episodes, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk ...

Sep 14, 2018 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?

with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofksy (@StevenSi) In this hallway-style conversation episode of the a16z Podcast, Benedict Evans and a16z ...

Sep 8, 2018 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories

with Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) There's a lot of research and writing out there on "thinking fast" -...

Sep 4, 2018 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail

with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Cal Turner Jr., and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The "death of retail" in the face of e-commerce and tech disruption is a ...

Aug 25, 2018 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise

with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Russ Heddleston (@rheddleston), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) What happens when the bott...

Aug 20, 2018 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source

with Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel), Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) The open source movement enabled so much in computing, including...

Aug 9, 2018 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention

with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Once you have users, how do you keep them engaged, retain them, and ev...

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a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition

with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Growth is one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs buil...

Aug 3, 2018 16m not processed

a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets

with Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) and Sharon Chang (@sychang) What does it really take to start a startup (or work at one)? In this episode of the a16z Podcast ...

Aug 1, 2018 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies

with Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) Cryptonetworks are often compared to firms, ...

Aug 1, 2018 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks

with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) “Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcomes.” At the end of the day...

Jul 20, 2018 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: High Growth in Companies (and Tech)

with Elad Gil (@eladgil) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's a lot of knowledge out there -- and networks of talent (especially in Silicon Valley) -- on what t...

Jul 17, 2018 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto

with Katie Haun (@katie_haun), Robin Weisnman (@robinweisman), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) What’s going on, regulation-wise, in crypto? How should people who ...

Jul 17, 2018 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building Companies in Crypto, from People to Code

with Tina Bhatnagar (@tinab), Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi), Lily Liu (@calilyliu), and Kim Milosevich (@kimbatronic) Whether it’s sharing the decision-ma...

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a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture

with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Elizabeth Stark (@starkness), and Jessica Verrilli (@jess) Why does decentralization matter? This episode of the a16z Podcast -- ...

Jul 13, 2018 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA

with Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), David Reich, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Trying to reconstruct the deep past of ancient humans out of present-day p...

Jul 12, 2018 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Mentors and Mentees

with Ken Coleman, Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) Everyone talks about the importance of mentorship in our professional develo...

Jul 6, 2018 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life

with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) The rise of zero-sum thinking -- which has come snapping back...

Jun 21, 2018 39m not processed

a16z Podcast: All Things Compensation

Compensation is a topic near and dear to everyone’s heart… but what does “compensation” fully mean — and what does it include, what doesn’t it include? How d...

Jun 14, 2018 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- The Build

with Martin Fischer (@fischermartin), Saurabh Ladha (@ladhasaurabh), Chris Rippingham, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Continuing our series on how tech i...

Jun 13, 2018 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

with Greg Lynn (@greglynnform), Gina Neff (@ginasue), Tracy Young (@Tracy_Young), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Construction has been one of the industr...

Jun 8, 2018 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: The End (and Beginning) of Programming

There are over 20 million programmers out there -- and double that, if you count everyone else coding in other ways -- but where are the next 100 million dev...

Jun 6, 2018 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Hard Things about Security

Here's the hard thing about security: the more authentication factors you have, the more secure things are... but in practice, people won't use too many fact...

May 25, 2018 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Autonomy in Service

with Gregory Allen (@Gregory_C_Allen), Gayle Lemmon (@gaylelemmon), Ryan Tseng, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We now live in a world where connecting th...

May 23, 2018 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Journalism Goes Global

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the organization responsible for the compilation and release of the first the Panama Papers, a s...

May 18, 2018 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: B2B2C

When it comes to B2B2C business models -- which combine both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) -- who really "owns" the customer? Tha...

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a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech

“The rules of the game are different in tech,” argues — and has long argued, despite his views not being accepted at first — W. Brian Arthur, technologist-tu...

May 10, 2018 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Oral History Of TrialPay — Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments

In this hallway-style conversation (originally recorded as a video), a16z general partner Alex Rampell and Terry Angelos, SVP of Commerce Solutions at Visa, ...

May 10, 2018 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Shifting Risk Mindsets, From Tech to Bio

What challenges do first-time founders or tech founders encounter when building companies in the bio space, and how do they differ from traditional tech comp...

May 9, 2018 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End

with Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Signaling and credential inflation -- not learning -- can explain wh...

May 2, 2018 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Breaking Into Bio

with Atul Butte (@atulbutte), Daphne Koller (@daphnekoller), and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) Whether you’re an academic seeking to move out of research and int...

Apr 21, 2018 49m not processed

a16z Podcast: Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life

with Ray Dalio (@raydalio), Alex Rampell (@arampell), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Can one really apply the lessons of history and of the past to the present a...

Apr 16, 2018 8m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Recent Consolidation in the Healthcare Industry

Many of the healthcare headlines lately have been about consolidation in the industry: Walmart and Humana; Aetna and CVS; Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Ha...

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a16z Podcast: Players and Paths for Healthcare Startups

The creation of each new biotechnology enables a tool, a therapy, or a diagnostic: a molecule, a protein, an app, a platform. And the process underneath isn'...

Apr 16, 2018 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering

Hypothesis, test, revise -- that's science. Engineering, however, doesn't quite go that way: You have parts you know and understand (like legos), and then yo...

Apr 12, 2018 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: What to Know about GDPR

with Lisa Hawke (@ldhawke) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Protection ...

Mar 28, 2018 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps

with Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv), Jez Humble (@jezhumble) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) From the old claim that "IT doesn't matter" and question of whether tech...

Mar 26, 2018 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader

Few operators become VCs, and even fewer go back to leading companies... so how does these perspectives change how one leads? Obviously, it's a lot easier to...

Mar 23, 2018 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Improv'ing Leadership

Leadership is not just about management, but about passion, a bit of humor, and resilience. General partner Peter Levine and Dick Costolo (entrepreneur, form...

Mar 21, 2018 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life

Focusing only on the technical, "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the humanity at the center of why we're doing the thing i...

Mar 16, 2018 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: How to Live Longer and Better

with Kristen Fortney (@kpfortney), Jeff Kaditz (@jeffkaditz), David Sinclair (@davidasinclair), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Even without a mythical fo...

Mar 13, 2018 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How

with Cristina Cordova (@cjc), Augusto Marietti (@sonicaghi), Laura Behrens Wu (@laurabehrenswu), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) APIs (application programming int...

Mar 8, 2018 18m not processed

a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

What happens when monolithic architectures are broken down into containers and microservices (or when things are broken down into smaller units, not just in ...

Mar 4, 2018 14m not processed

a16z Podcast: Space -- the Near Frontier

When most people think of space, they think of outer space: Mars, billionaires with rockets, and the “final frontier”. But space innovation is actually playi...

Feb 28, 2018 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: The State of Security

with Joel de la Garza, Stina Ehrensvärd, Niels Provos, and Martin Casado Given the heated discussions around security and the c-word (“cyber”), it’s hard to ...

Feb 24, 2018 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning

with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The purpose of category creation, argue the guests in this ep...

Feb 22, 2018 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Self-Flying Camera

with Adam Bry (@adampbry), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Now that we've finally reached the age of the truly autonomous commercia...

Feb 18, 2018 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture

Once upon a time it was inconceivable that a company in Silicon Valley could make content that was any good; the running joke, shares Marc Andreessen, "was l...

Feb 18, 2018 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Business of Continual Change

Every large company -- especially ones that have been around for a long time -- goes through multiple cycles of change. But how do you know where to go next,...

Feb 17, 2018 16m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Technology Is Changing Investing

As people begin to gain access to information that was previously left to only trained specialists, a new set of asset classes are being created -- and they ...

Feb 13, 2018 16m not processed

a16z Podcast: Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience

In 2017 The Economist declared data to be the world's most valuable resource. And yet “data insight” is one of those phrases that, while important, is now so...

Feb 11, 2018 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Evolution of Payments

The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation, oft observes a16z ge...

Feb 6, 2018 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Is VR's iPhone Moment?

There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z general partner ...

Feb 3, 2018 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing

with Lee Kleinman (@LeeForDallas), Joshua Schank (@joshuaschank), Andrew Savage, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) There's a new wave of bike-sharing in tow...

Jan 31, 2018 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

As cars become more like iPhones and less like just, well, cars — everything changes, from data to mapping to interfaces to security and more. How so? Where ...

Jan 22, 2018 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More

In this hallway conversation of the a16z Podcast, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky discuss CES 2018 and share insight on what they took from this year's sh...

Jan 22, 2018 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens

This episode of the a16z Podcast goes deep on various trends in cryptocurrencies -- from mental models for understanding tokens and what may give them long-t...

Jan 13, 2018 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Reinventing Food

It's surprising that how (and what) we eat has actually changed very little over the ages, despite how much we’ve advanced as a species. Now, however -- driv...

Jan 10, 2018 15m not processed

a16z Podcast: Revisiting the Gene

The complete sequencing of the human genome is one of the most powerful examples of technology and science in action: We've gone from needing $3 billion and ...

Jan 6, 2018 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: Community and Culture, Online

We’re so used to thinking of “community” as our friends, families, and neighbors. But what a community is, and who it is made of, has changed thanks to the i...

Dec 19, 2017 18m not processed

a16z Podcast: Fintech for the People

New fintech companies are democratizing access to financial services in different ways, whether it's making food stamps more efficient, no longer waiting two...

Dec 19, 2017 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Trends in Cryptocurrencies

The internet, believe it or not, was just the beginning. Yes, it spawned an incredible number of uses (some unexpected), from marketplaces and commerce to pu...

Dec 19, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The $200 PC in the Enterprise

What capabilities do enterprise companies really want from their computers? Twenty years ago, those capabilities might've been bundled into a mainframe. Ten ...

Dec 15, 2017 11m not processed

a16z Podcast: Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy

Many of the big tech policy issues of the day play out more so at the state and local level, not just federal level. The decisions that cities and states mak...

Dec 14, 2017 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Taking the Pulse on Bio

This conversation between the members of a16z's bio team -- including general partners Jorge Conde and Vijay Pande; Malinka Walaliyadde; and Jeffrey Low (the...

Dec 13, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Scaling Healthcare

No matter how grand a vision for a particular industry, disruption in practice is hard. This is especially true in industries like healthcare, which have lon...

Dec 10, 2017 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Market Shifts

NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world's largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that's home to more than 3,500 li...

Dec 5, 2017 9m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Data and Data Scientists in the Age of AI

Data, data, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Or so would say Coleridge, if he were a big company CEO trying to use A.I. today -- because even when you have...

Dec 2, 2017 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application

When you have “a really hot, frothy space” like AI, even the most basic questions — like what is it good for, how do you make sure your data is in shape, and...

Nov 18, 2017 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Rise of the CCO

There's a new C-level role in town: the CCO, or Chief Customer Officer. This episode (based on a previous event) is all about the rise of this new role, why ...

Nov 10, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product

Hiring a VP of Product -- especially as the founder of the company -- can almost feel like handing over your baby to someone else to hold, observes a16z exec...

Nov 3, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice

with Brandon Ballinger (@bballinger), Mintu Turakhia (@leftbundle), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) There’s been a lot of talk...

Oct 31, 2017 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Why Behind the Weird

Author and professor at George Mason University, Peter Leeson describes himself as not just an economist but as a "collector of curiosa." In his latest book,...

Oct 23, 2017 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?

with Frank Chen, Steven Sinofsky, and Sonal Chokshi There are many reasons why we’re in an “A.I. spring” after multiple “A.I. winters” — but how then do we t...

Oct 13, 2017 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Platforming the Future

with Tim O'Reilly and Benedict Evans In this hallway-style podcast conversation, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly and a16z partner Benedict Evans discuss ...

Oct 12, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: A New Lab Rises

with Ion Stoica, Peter Levine, and Sonal Chokshi We’ve already talked quite a bit about the Algorithms, Machines, and People lab at U.C. Berkeley (AMPLab) — ...

Oct 6, 2017 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mindsets for Engineering Biology

Head of the largest bioengineering lab in the world, former chairman of the FDA and one of the few recipients of the National Medals of Science and of Techno...

Sep 28, 2017 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter

with Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matters. But as the set of cryptocurrencies — and networks and “tokens” enabled by th...

Sep 26, 2017 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments

with David Mack, Joseph Okpaku, and Matt Spence How should startups engage with policymakers, build their own government relations (GR) function (whether in ...

Sep 16, 2017 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Exploding the Map

with Wei Luo, David Rumsey (@davidrumseymaps), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) In this episode, Wei Luo, founding COO of DeepMap -- who build HD maps for ...

Sep 15, 2017 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People's Hands

with Juan Benet and Chris Dixon The story of how innovation happens is a long one — from government funding early basic research, to the heyday of corporate ...

Sep 13, 2017 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide

with Michael Dearing (@mcgd), Bob Sutton (@work_matters), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Bob Sutton's book The No Asshole Rule was all about how to foste...

Sep 10, 2017 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation

with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Sonal Chokshi Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the ...

Sep 5, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Macro and Micro of Parenting

We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts -- screen time, to code or not to code -- but actually, there's a bigger, macro pictur...

Sep 2, 2017 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Competing Against Luck

with Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Steven Levy In business, mistakes of omission may be just as bad as (if not worse than) mistakes of commission...

Aug 30, 2017 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent

"Young hungry and scrappy" is how Hamilton described his country, and it's how many -- including the guests on this episode -- describe startups... or more p...

Aug 25, 2017 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure

What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually meant the transportation systems supporting roadways, airports, trains... but w...

Aug 25, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤️ CFO

with Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Caroline Moon “The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash” [so said Harold Geneen], yet startup CEOs “al...

Aug 15, 2017 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge

What do disease diagnostics, language learning, and image recognition have in common? All depend on the organization of collective intelligence: data ontolog...

Aug 11, 2017 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Centers of Power, War, and History

with Graham Allison and Matthew Colford "When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, shit happens." It's true of people, it's true of companies...

Aug 7, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Strategies and Tactics of Big

What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to their organization, their product planning, their behavior towards change itse...

Aug 4, 2017 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board

with Anne Mitchell, Lars Dalgaard, and Scott Kupor"Orthogonal thinking" but "shared core values" -- that's what makes an ideal board... especially when it co...

Aug 3, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age

with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky Modern technology owes much to the introduction of the binary digit or "bit", first proposed by Claude Shan...

Jul 24, 2017 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the who (the bankers, the desired institutional investors); the what (the pricing, th...

Jul 18, 2017 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real

Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists trying to resurrect (or rather, "rewild") an Ice Age (aka Pleistocene era) biome (...

Jul 15, 2017 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality

In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does popularity -- or good product design, for that matter -- cross over from desire a...

Jul 11, 2017 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains

This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes of economics/historian/journalist Marc Levinson's books -- from An Extraordinary...

Jun 30, 2017 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing

A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shifts in classic computing before it, it begins -- not ends -- with The Cloud. Th...

Jun 29, 2017 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds

Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon? Not yet, argue Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in t...

Jun 24, 2017 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech

What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" and making arrangements in "smoke-filled back rooms”? It's not like that anymore, acc...

Jun 18, 2017 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

"We're always fighting the last war" -- that's a phrase historians like to use because policymakers and others tend to be so focused on the threats they alre...

Jun 16, 2017 8m not processed

a16z Podcast: Taking the ‘Cyber’ Out of Cybersecurity

Nearly every cybersecurity discussion/presentation follows this formula: We don’t know what we’re doing; the bad guys are getting smarter; our defenses are g...

Jun 16, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity

When individuals gain the abilities that only nation states once had, how do we put cyber threats in perspective for policymakers -- without unduly "inflatin...

Jun 9, 2017 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris

"Slow down, cowboys" -- that's what Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) said when prosecutors in her office wanted to bring a case against companies that le...

Jun 7, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Modernizing Government Services, From Food Stamps to Foster Care

When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of improved procurement, of new infrastructure ... rather than social services lik...

Jun 4, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare

Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’s legal and what isn’t is far more complex when it comes to poli...

May 29, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Living Museum

Every industry (for-profit, non-profit, government, private-sector) has been touched by tech, with most trying to lead the charge in order to stay ahead. But...

May 26, 2017 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees

There's feedback and there's guidance; there's praise and there's criticism. All of it is important to do better work, but to develop a better and more produ...

May 23, 2017 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: What Technology Wants, Needs, Does

Turnabout is fair play: That's true in politics, and it's true at Andreessen Horowitz given our internal (and very opinionated!) culture of debate -- where w...

May 22, 2017 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tech Policy and the Courts

Discussions and headlines around tech policy tend to be dominated by what the President and the White House (aka the executive branch of the government) and ...

May 20, 2017 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Blockchain, in Congress

There’s an interesting paradox when it comes to the U.S. government and tech: Either they’re an inventor, early adopter, and buyer of emerging new tech … or ...

May 18, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: For Your Ears Only

When it comes to spycraft — or rather, “tradecraft,” as they say in the biz — what do the movies get right, and what do they get wrong? In this episode of th...

May 15, 2017 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Jobs to Flying Cars

In this lively conversation -- from our recent annual tech and policy summit in Washington, D.C. -- Axios' Dan Primack interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andree...

May 13, 2017 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next

Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the computing industry by so many orders of magnitude, it has (and continues to) ac...

May 11, 2017 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: Boards, from Both Sides of the Table

A board veteran who has sat on both sides of the table, CEO of PagerDuty Jennifer Tejada shares what you gain from board membership (vs. being only an operat...

May 1, 2017 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking

It’s the end of the beginning — not the beginning of the end — for wearables, argue the guests in this episode of the a16z Podcast. Especially as we move fro...

Apr 28, 2017 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'

The first thing that comes to mind when treating health problems is the need to take a pill (or other pharmaceutical) of some kind. But could a digital thera...

Apr 25, 2017 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: QR. AR. VR.

In this hallway-style episode of the podcast, a16z partners Connie Chan and Kyle Russell discuss recent announcements at Facebook's annual developer conferen...

Apr 18, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Science Of Extending Life

Is it real or science fiction to dream of being able to treat… getting old? In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Thomas Rando from Stanford (who directs the ...

Apr 13, 2017 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Crisis Communications

A crisis is an opportunity to change one's culture, to model scenarios and set up a crisis plan/process, to become a better company. But it's also a bit like...

Apr 11, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)

Here’s what we know about open source: Developers are the new buyers. Community matters. And there will never be another Red Hat (i.e., a successful “open co...

Apr 8, 2017 39m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Changing Culture of Open Source

The culture of open source has changed across generations, from previous ones that had to fight for the brave new way -- to the current "GitHub generation" t...

Apr 3, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols

Most of us have probably heard of bitcoin and ethereum -- but did you know there were 15 new cryptocurrencies launched this past month alone? How then do we ...

Mar 25, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Eyes in the Sky

In this episode of the a16z Podcast recorded at our inaugural Summit, Jonathan Downey, CEO of Airware, Grant Jordan, CEO of Skysafe, and Kyle Russell, partne...

Mar 22, 2017 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM

An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Darden is one of the mathematicians that the book and movie Hidden Figures was bas...

Mar 21, 2017 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance

As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important. It migh...

Mar 17, 2017 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), those compan...

Mar 13, 2017 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Build Your Personal Brand

Your brand, says head of a16z marketing and Outcast Agency co-founder Margit Wennmachers, is what people say about you when you're not in the room. And it's ...

Mar 9, 2017 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Business of Healthcare

Starbucks supposedly spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. And 20 years ago, says Rajeev Singh, CEO of Accolade, healthcare was 10% of GDP;...

Mar 7, 2017 14m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Genetics Of Drug Delivery

In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a presentation at our summit event), Russ Altman, Stanford professor of bioengineerin...

Mar 1, 2017 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream

The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes, even political -- is that we've become too comfortable: matching to others jus...

Feb 28, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future of... You

Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing their performance, whether in sports or health or work. An...

Feb 26, 2017 45m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'

Imagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupted by some other streaming-content company that made its DVD rental business irr...

Feb 23, 2017 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions

Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the physical environment around us -- reshaping fields into cities, redirecting rivers ...

Feb 22, 2017 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?

It's been nearly 15 years since the Human Genome Project was completed. But "are we there yet" in the golden age of genomics? What did we think we'd have by ...

Feb 19, 2017 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)

The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual pivot. It's the courage to make the decision... and being ho...

Feb 14, 2017 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services

The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow needs. How should we be thinking about securing infrastructure -- and identity -...

Feb 8, 2017 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition

Thanks to freeways, cities became something to get through instead of something to get to. Now, as the next transportation revolution -- from rivers to train...

Feb 1, 2017 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations

In the age of the internet -- where information is freely available online, and connections between sellers and buyers of software products are visible on Li...

Jan 27, 2017 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative

Once upon a time, Robert Stromberg got a phone call from "Jim" Cameron (aka James Francis Cameron of Terminator and Titanic fame) about a little project call...

Jan 26, 2017 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of PR

"Punch above your weight" -- If there's one thing public relations (PR) should help startups and founders do, it's that. Unfortunately, some companies are ac...

Jan 24, 2017 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience

The building blocks for VR and AR are finally here -- but the content is just beginning. So everything you'll actually experience and consume in these new me...

Jan 21, 2017 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem

How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for startups and VC to what...

Jan 21, 2017 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for different tech domains -- e...

Jan 18, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Culture and/of Design

"Mobile-first" (and now too AI-first) has been a mantra of sorts in design, but what does that mean at a company, product management, and competitive level? ...

Jan 13, 2017 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy

The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: either own 1...

Jan 11, 2017 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry

From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level artificial intelligence" in playing an imperfect/ asymmetric info...

Jan 1, 2017 49m not processed

a16z Podcast: New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!

What (on earth) does it take to get a signal to Pluto? Stanford senior scientist and astronomer Ivan Linscott, part of the team that ran the radio science ex...

Dec 31, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Movement of Money

As companies expand out from the internet into the rest of the economy — the proverbial bits to atoms — “the business models are becoming more complicated, m...

Dec 27, 2016 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local

As people live longer, aging is more top of mind than ever. This is especially true for the "sandwich generation" wedged between caring for aging parents as ...

Dec 16, 2016 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

"We throw around words like 'crisis' very easily, but this is a global crisis, and it is of historic proportions," says current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Stat...

Dec 14, 2016 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)

Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecules that...

Dec 9, 2016 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Internet Is Your Movement

Clearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whether it was the Scottish national party, recent election campaigns, or local schoo...

Dec 5, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity

"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. What movie you...

Nov 27, 2016 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr

The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and economic progress — not unlike today’s, in fact — where w...

Nov 23, 2016 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Drones for Delivery in Healthcare

“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “we should have it for our medicine.” So while some people de...

Nov 23, 2016 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production and meat-...

Nov 9, 2016 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!

You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come work for him. Only this time the story turns out great ....

Nov 9, 2016 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: What's Next for Technology and National Security?

We live in very interesting times, to say the least -- whether it's a shift in how technology is built and adopted today compared to the past; a changing int...

Nov 3, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business

In business, as in politics, "the movement is the message" -- whether that "movement" is a product that's taking off grassroots-style in an enterprise, or is...

Oct 29, 2016 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?

There have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the hardwa...

Oct 18, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business

Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,000 genes...

Oct 12, 2016 47m not processed

a16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!

From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have taken over m...

Oct 10, 2016 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR

The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual reality o...

Sep 30, 2016 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)

This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Disney's Queen of Katwe, now in theaters. The movie -- direct...

Sep 22, 2016 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes

From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing an expl...

Sep 18, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce

Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platforms, "c...

Sep 13, 2016 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation

"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires visible in white...

Sep 6, 2016 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Sleep!

Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is the way t...

Aug 31, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: All About Microservices

"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". So shares...

Aug 30, 2016 18m not processed

a16z Podcast: It's Complicated

For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they're not ...

Aug 28, 2016 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond

Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programming langu...

Aug 19, 2016 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Pricing Free

Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freemium models? While...

Aug 14, 2016 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Pricing, Pricing, Pricing

"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. But why is this so key and yet so hard for many technical founders? A...

Aug 3, 2016 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji

This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary moves; the ...

Aug 1, 2016 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal

From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially software busin...

Jul 22, 2016 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go

Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that was technically years in the making, building on a legacy...

Jul 15, 2016 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: Getting Network Effects

One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind many successful and highly defensible software companies) ...

Jul 14, 2016 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer

We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an IT builder. Especially for areas where the government is ...

Jul 11, 2016 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World

"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago, and of the traje...

Jul 1, 2016 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options

Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an outdated re...

Jun 28, 2016 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.

with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups,...

Jun 22, 2016 45m not processed

a16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?

How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future" for fintech? We're not quite there yet, argued BuzzFeed Ne...

Jun 16, 2016 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy

Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Stern profes...

Jun 14, 2016 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Apple and the Widgetification of Everything

The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at its most recent annual developer's conference (WWDC) -- tha...

Jun 14, 2016 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)

The mindset of "move fast and break things", while great for code, isn't exactly great for the human body. So adding computation to biology -- especially in ...

Jun 7, 2016 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)

Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and compounding in unexpected ways. But just because we don't k...

Jun 2, 2016 43m not processed

Politics Over Pragmatism

"Anybody who is interested in China, who's developing things in China, who's doing business with China needs to be thinking about the instinct towards politi...

May 30, 2016 53m not processed

a16z Podcast: Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money

Everything old is new again when it comes to startup ideas and how technology innovation happens. But practically, how does that apply to starting and/or wor...

May 27, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker

"We really want Apple here... Would you please call Tim Cook?" That's just one of the things Penny Pritzker, the 38th Secretary of Commerce has heard as she ...

May 26, 2016 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent

In many ways, managing startups is about managing uncertainty: in product, market, and... people. So what happens when changes in the business require change...

May 23, 2016 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)

There's no question automation is taking over more and more aspects of work and some jobs altogether. But we're now entering a "third era" of automation, one...

May 20, 2016 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O

Innovation or invention? Platform or app? Vertical or horizontal? Strategy or tactic? Does the smartphone eat VR? And (not to get all existential about it or...

May 18, 2016 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform

One of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- including companies, developers, engineers, hobbyists, and yes, ...

May 17, 2016 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Cloud and The Public Sector

It almost seems like gospel -- or at least a given -- today for startups to embrace the cloud. Services like AWS have powered an entire generation of startup...

May 17, 2016 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Art of the Regulatory Hack

If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problems -- like health, energy, transportation, cities, educati...

May 12, 2016 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media

Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and makes perfect sense in hindsight. This was especially true fo...

May 11, 2016 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'

Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and build new...

May 10, 2016 39m not processed

a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain

Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development platform, cryptocurrency...

May 5, 2016 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape

So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterparts, which makes it easier to figure out how to present ...

Apr 28, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop

When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions: It’s just a big iPhone I’ll never carry a laptop again Both were wrong....

Apr 22, 2016 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain

Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But the int...

Apr 19, 2016 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond

So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots! In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict Evans and Connie Chan -- along with Chris Messina, longt...

Apr 14, 2016 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models

Developers are more than just influencers inside the enterprise -- they're now buyers, too. That's a huge shift from before, when only IT and other departmen...

Apr 8, 2016 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of Sales

The hallmark of many great technical founder/CEOs is that they envision a better way of doing things, and that's why they're building a company that delivers...

Apr 2, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons

Some of the best management books are actually military books, argues Ben Horowitz. There's just a certain mental toughness and focus that that experience gi...

Mar 25, 2016 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Investing in (Business and Career) Change

Most investors try to invest in things that don't change and last forever -- Warren Buffett for example loves Heinz ketchup! But VC is about investing in thi...

Mar 17, 2016 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Scaling Companies and Culture

In this episode of the a16z Podcast sharing more founder stories, Ben Horowitz interviews a16z partner Lars Dalgaard about SuccessFactors, one of the earlier...

Mar 16, 2016 15m not processed

a16z Podcast: Truth and Humanity in Leadership

How do you get into tech when you don’t have a tech background? And what special expertise can leaders from other fields -- like the military -- bring to tec...

Mar 11, 2016 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go

Why are people so fired up about a computer winning yet another game? Whether it's checkers, chess, Jeopardy, or the ancient Chinese game of Go, we get excit...

Mar 11, 2016 55m not processed

a16z Podcast: Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison

Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those peop...

Mar 11, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: I Reject the Term Viral Video

YouTube star Casey Neistat rejects the term “viral video,” which is strange because he’s had more than his share of internet monsters. To say I want to make ...

Mar 8, 2016 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Data Network Effects

If network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that may be especially true of data network effects -- a networ...

Mar 2, 2016 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Disruption in Business... and Life

It's not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too. Or so argue Cla...

Mar 2, 2016 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality

The mobile world has fallen hard for VR, says Benedict Evans. But will virtual reality mean real profit for hardware makers? Evans offers his observations on...

Feb 26, 2016 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is coming fast, and everyone seems to assume that it will be gamers who get to have all the fun first. But there are other applications for V...

Feb 24, 2016 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Infrastructure... Is Everything

Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered "boring" because it is so invisible to so many of us. But as softw...

Feb 19, 2016 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future

The principal political binary of the past century was the political 'left versus right'. But in the 21st century the binary has shifted -- the battleground ...

Feb 18, 2016 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: 'In the Eye of a Tornado' -- Views on Innovation from China

No matter how one views Xiaomi -- and there are many ways to view it, for better or worse -- one thing is clear: It, and other such companies (like WeChat an...

Feb 6, 2016 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential

During his “Stratos” jump Felix Baumgartner fell faster than the speed of sound, reaching an estimated speed of 833.9 mph plummeting from the edge of space. ...

Feb 5, 2016 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital

The NFL has descended upon Silicon Valley for Superbowl 50, and a16z was fortunate to have 30 of the world’s best football players post-up at the firm to tal...

Feb 5, 2016 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times

Max Levchin helped build PayPal. Then he went onto tackle gaming at Slide. Now he’s back in the world of payments and finance with his latest startup Affirm....

Feb 3, 2016 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future of Money and Monetization

Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business -- from raising funds to moving money from one person to anoth...

Feb 2, 2016 39m not processed

a16z Podcast: How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen

From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- such as entrepreneurs -- do a lot of different things to move the wor...

Jan 29, 2016 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Reinventing Insurance

Your homeowner’s insurance didn’t anticipate Airbnb. Your car insurance certainly didn’t see Lyft and Uber coming. And when your car drives itself, it’s anyo...

Jan 29, 2016 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Banking Works Like My Smartphone

There are fewer and fewer parts of our lives that don't feel like an extension of our smartphones. Any song you might want to hear. Any place you might want ...

Jan 25, 2016 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa

We often hear stats like “more people have mobile phones than toilets” about places like Africa, but what does that actually mean for people? “It is b.s.,” (...

Jan 20, 2016 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth

The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thriller. Nation states are after your company’s most valuable a...

Jan 15, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners

Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, sensors, and batteries all get mixed and matched in diffe...

Jan 13, 2016 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack

For as long as there has been software we have had this collective hope -- maybe more of a desire -- that software will make all kinds of work easier, more p...

Jan 8, 2016 12m not processed

a16z Podcast: Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from an episodic event to an almost continuous release cycle....

Jan 7, 2016 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making the Most of the Data That Matters

Every organization these days is clear about the need to get its data act together. But that doesn’t mean the path toward data bliss is clear. Data has gravi...

Jan 6, 2016 43m not processed

a16z Podcast: What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need

The old constraint when it came to technology was hardware -- how many CPUs can I get my hands on. Today, spinning up compute can be done from any smartphone...

Jan 5, 2016 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future of Software Development

As software becomes core to every industry, there is a need for more and more software development across practically every department in a company. But as a...

Dec 18, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality

Chris Milk calls virtual reality the “ultimate empathy machine.” The filmmaker and founder of VR shop Vrse talks with a16z’s Chris Dixon about how virtual re...

Dec 18, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped

You know how talented Andre Iguodala is as a basketball player. You may not know that he signed with the Warriors in part to be near Silicon Valley and the t...

Dec 18, 2015 1h not processed

a16z Podcast: Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!

Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, sits down with Ben Horowitz during a16z's 2015 Tech Summit for a wide ranging conversation on investing, the ...

Dec 17, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech

Benedict Evans highlights the past year in mobile. From Apple's ongoing rule of the high-end, to Android's spread farther down the price curve. Without a cle...

Dec 17, 2015 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality

Our virtual reality-enabled future is arriving, but it’s hard to know -- as it is with every new technology platform -- how quickly we’ll all make the transi...

Dec 12, 2015 45m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China

India and China. The two most populous countries on the planet are also two of the most tantalizing markets for companies of all size, from startups to congl...

Dec 4, 2015 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe

Our final segment from the road in the U.K. features two well-known investors and entrepreneurs in the London tech world: Seedcamp co-founder Reshma Sahoni a...

Dec 4, 2015 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself

What if you could bring the best version of yourself to everything you do everyday? What if you could get the most out of your mind and brain -- or more scie...

Dec 1, 2015 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything

The pod continues its U.K. road trip, meeting up with three startup founders -- including one startup accelerator programme -- to discuss the entrepreneurial...

Nov 28, 2015 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need

Brett Hagler was on a trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake where he saw too many of those displaced by the natural disaster still living in tattered blue-...

Nov 25, 2015 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Data Science of Food and Taste

The best cooks know cooking a meal is all about having a plan (and a back-up plan if things go south); get the cooking out of the way, and then you can enjoy...

Nov 24, 2015 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Data Down on the Farm

Farmers are among the best hackers in the business. They can fix anything, and are endlessly tweaking their approach to a business that is up against the str...

Nov 24, 2015 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future of Food

Rob Rhinehart, like most startup entrepreneurs, was strapped for cash and time as developed his ideas and ultimately a company. What stood out to Rhinehart i...

Nov 21, 2015 44m not processed

a16z Podcast: On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations

It's hip to be Square right now. Or is it? How do we assess whether it -- and other recent IPOs -- went well, not just for investors but overall? In this epi...

Nov 20, 2015 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way

If the U.K. is to continue its economic march onward and upward, technology needs to play an increasing role, say Martha Lane Fox (that's Baroness of Soho La...

Nov 19, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey

There are those who would say that Aubrey de Grey is out to cure death, but what this former artificial intelligence specialist turned gerontologist is reall...

Nov 17, 2015 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London

The title of world's financial capital bounces back and forth between London and New York. This year London has bragging rights, but does being the word's ce...

Nov 15, 2015 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'

What is A.I. or artificial intelligence but the 'space of possible minds', argues Murray Shanahan, scientific advisor on the movie Ex Machina and Professor o...

Nov 11, 2015 45m not processed

a16z Podcast: Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin

Blockchain without bitcoin? It's a debate as old as the cryptocurrency itself (which, to be honest, isn't that old). Given that bitcoin is not just a digital...

Nov 7, 2015 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: Beyond Lean Startups

What began as a scientific approach to creating and managing startups has now become a worldwide movement for companies of all sizes -- and for creating (or ...

Nov 3, 2015 51m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech

There's a "game" being played right now among lawmakers and tech companies around policy issues, and as tech touches everything, everyone has to play some ve...

Nov 3, 2015 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

Telepresence. It's an ugly, outdated word for an attractive and current/ emerging phenomenon where people can work from anywhere, anytime. It's technology fo...

Nov 3, 2015 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: 'The Most Boring Yet Valuable' 20 Minutes, All About Board Minutes

"The most boring yet valuable podcast in a16z history" -- he (our guest Joe Grundfest) said it, not we! That’s because in this episode of the a16z Podcast, S...

Oct 29, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks

It's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to networks and oth...

Oct 24, 2015 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't

Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a "disturban...

Oct 22, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone

Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to mini co...

Oct 16, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Belief -- An Interview with Oprah Winfrey

This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)'s "Belief", which just premiered ...

Oct 16, 2015 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow

We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would have been hard to imagine. Not so much that the two compa...

Oct 14, 2015 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software

The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its share of ...

Oct 13, 2015 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Role of Academia in the Startup World

Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web browser,...

Oct 9, 2015 16m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley

There is a stream of the world's largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. But how do they find it, and then, how do they bring it b...

Oct 6, 2015 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne

Mention Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, and you’ll elicit a strong opinion. In 2004, one hedge fund manager labeled Byrne the most hated...

Oct 4, 2015 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Podcast about Podcasts

Podcasts and podcasting have been around a while, but seem to be going through a renaissance of sorts -- partly enabled by connected cars and other technolog...

Oct 2, 2015 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Money, Risk, and Software

Financial services are overdue for an overhaul. With a16z's newest general partner, Alex Rampell (who just officially started), this segment of the podcast e...

Sep 25, 2015 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers

Apple included support for ad blocking in its recent iOS 9 update, and for many that prompted discussions around an age-old question: Is traditional advertis...

Sep 21, 2015 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board

There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: get some ...

Sep 17, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation

The internet as it has evolved in the United States is perhaps the best example of “permissionless innovation” -- the idea that you can innovate without firs...

Sep 11, 2015 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid

Legendary investor Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's financial partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) invokes a set of interdisciplinary "mental mod...

Sep 10, 2015 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV

Apple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other company is likely to knock it from its perch in the near term, ...

Sep 7, 2015 7m not processed

a16z Podcast: Code and Culture in South Central Los Angeles

South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recovered from the Rodney King riots of 1992. In South Central L.A...

Sep 5, 2015 47m not processed

a16z Podcast: Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence

Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science to the web browser itself. Yet the process of moving fro...

Sep 2, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin

a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on ...

Aug 31, 2015 37m not processed

a16z Podcast: Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More

Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in a society where the proxy for value is capital and much ...

Aug 28, 2015 40m not processed

a16z Podcast: Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff

Longtime New York Times technology and science writer John Markoff joins the a16z Podcast to discuss our changing relationship with technology and machines ....

Aug 28, 2015 43m not processed

a16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to 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 analy...

Aug 25, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Software Eats Cars

After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their attention ...

Aug 20, 2015 49m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker

Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, they wer...

Aug 18, 2015 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Internet is His Religion

How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about getting them anyway? And in the middle of that mental and phy...

Aug 17, 2015 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be

As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever more critical. Whether it’s for dating or sending money, ...

Aug 15, 2015 46m not processed

a16z Podcast: Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz)

This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton, the story of the ...

Aug 13, 2015 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: Getting That First Board Seat

When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to go into it advocating for yourself a...

Aug 7, 2015 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Is It Possible to Achieve Equitable Equity for Startup Employees?

There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or by makin...

Aug 7, 2015 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Compensation Isn’t About Paying the Most, It’s About Being Consistent

The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best people is compensation. It seems straightforward, but if you d...

Aug 7, 2015 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency

There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questions abou...

Aug 5, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center

Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech world. But...

Aug 1, 2015 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe

Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what does ma...

Jul 30, 2015 6m not processed

a16z Podcast: These Girls Code

We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation coding...

Jul 28, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Why Every Business is in the Data Business

It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In t...

Jul 26, 2015 41m not processed

a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science

Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the ...

Jul 24, 2015 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big

Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small...

Jul 22, 2015 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?

Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee incl...

Jul 16, 2015 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data

When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data -- a lot of the output of our work and activity as humans i...

Jul 10, 2015 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities

Bitcoin has had more than its share of drama. There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anonymous founder (or perhaps, founders) Satoshi Nakamoto. Mor...

Jul 10, 2015 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government

Just a few years ago if you were mayor of Washington D.C. –- or any other city -- you didn’t have to wrap your head around the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, and oth...

Jul 9, 2015 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps

There is a gap between the technology industry and the fastest growing portion of today’s workforce and the workforce of the future: Latinos -- argue U.S. Re...

Jul 1, 2015 42m not processed

a16z Podcast: Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?

In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Mohsen Malayeri, co-founder of Avatech -- one of the more prominent startup accelerators in Iran a...

Jun 30, 2015 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: Layering Tech and Culture in Iran

In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Nazanin Daneshvar, co-founder and CEO of Takhfifan, the "Groupon of Iran", shares her experiences ...

Jun 24, 2015 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark

One of the most active and fastest growing open source big data cluster computing projects is Apache Spark, which was originally developed at U.C. Berkeley's...

Jun 22, 2015 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Investing in Communities

Investing to make a return both financial AND societal isn't new, but the opportunities to reach and build businesses in communities that have been underserv...

Jun 17, 2015 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Quasi-IPO

"This time is different." But it's always different! So what's going on now in the public markets? Why does this even matter? For one thing, tech markets hav...

Jun 11, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile

Pick your metaphor: Smartphones are "remote controls" for the physical world, or perhaps, as Steve Cheney argues, they're "cursors for the physical world". E...

Jun 10, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believed to be...

Jun 10, 2015 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try

Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans examines the latest from the world’s most valuable company i...

Jun 5, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways

Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Board Partner Steven Sinofsky desc...

Jun 5, 2015 21m not processed

The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale

Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data" sets -- but that's not enough for modeling surprise/rare "black ...

Jun 4, 2015 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tech Trends Changing Gaming

with Justin Bailey (@justinbailey12d), Herman Narula (@hermannarula), Tim Schafer (@timoflegend) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) We know that the gaming industry ...

May 30, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy

Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an expressio...

May 25, 2015 19m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us

If there’s one business on planet earth that makes Silicon Valley look sober and level-headed it’s Hollywood, says Marc Andreessen. Hollywood and Silicon Val...

May 22, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Finding and Hiring for (Expectations) Fit on Both Sides

"Fit" is this squishy idea that a person, role, and company are a perfect match. But how do you tease out expectations and motivations from both sides of the...

May 21, 2015 20m not processed

a16z Podcast: Hiring is Hard -- Here’s How to Do it Right

LinkedIn may seem like a gift both for job seekers and hirers, but it's not enough. When (and how) should your company develop a process to attract -- and cl...

May 19, 2015 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Which Bitcoin Players Matter?

Users, entrepreneurs, and investors are harnessing bitcoin’s "workaday utility" in Argentina, a place where bitcoin is arguably more widespread among everyda...

May 16, 2015 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales

Andreessen Horowitz Managing Partner Scott Kupor and NetSuite CFO Ron Gill get into the weeds on SaaS valuations, and how public and private SaaS companies t...

May 12, 2015 12m not processed

a16z Podcast: Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile

The battle of the pipes has shifted to mobile. Verizon caught plenty of people by surprise when it announced it was buying AOL for $4.4 billion in cash (the ...

May 11, 2015 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from

Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under uncertainty. As new players and sources of capital enter the ...

May 8, 2015 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making Security More Useable

The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails are over. “You have to make security more useable,” says Pi...

May 7, 2015 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today

Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agility and speed. But unfortunately, security doesn’t like spe...

May 1, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intelligence company A...

Apr 30, 2015 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace

If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, the question for individuals and startup teams alike increa...

Apr 29, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)

The paradox of security is we pretty much know what we are supposed to do most of the time -- but we don’t do it. If you examine all the recent high profile ...

Apr 25, 2015 15m not processed

a16z Podcast: Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter

Silicon Valley and the U.S. Department of Defense have had a long history of partnership -- including the government funding R&D that was commercialized by m...

Apr 24, 2015 17m not processed

a16z Podcast: How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business

When (now) two-year-old startup Zenefits was banned in Utah because it offered its HR management software for free, CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad felt ups...

Apr 23, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

Bitcoin has not been easy for Wall Street and other traditional financial centers to wrap their collective heads around, let alone take seriously. But that h...

Apr 18, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)

It seems like we hear about corporate (not to mention consumer) hacks in the news every week. Is this something new, or just a continuation of old patterns a...

Apr 10, 2015 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology

It is something we all face -- the prospect of taking care of a parent (or two) when they can't quite take care of themselves. For Seth Sternberg, part of th...

Apr 3, 2015 25m not processed

a16z Podcast: Messaging is the Medium

The potential to turn messaging into a platform is driving much of the excitement in mobile, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. It's a platform through which other ...

Mar 31, 2015 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back -- with Marc Andreessen

Cyber attacks are growing in number and impact, and the reason is simple: there's more of value (and more vectors to) steal in our increasingly virtual world...

Mar 26, 2015 48m not processed

a16z Podcast: How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board

As the CEO of a startup your board is a critical tool in helping your company grow; the board is there to make you a better CEO. (Or at least it should be.) ...

Mar 25, 2015 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

Getting a board seat isn't just about adding value, but also about what value you take from it for your career. But why do it? When? How? And should you focu...

Mar 20, 2015 50m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)

Diane Greene -- who is on the boards of Google and Intuit -- has some golden rules when it comes to serving on boards. No 1: “You don’t want to tell them how...

Mar 16, 2015 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Building a Better Board

Of the 371 board seats that opened up last year (within Fortune 500 companies that is), 39% ended up going to first-time board members. So how did they pull ...

Mar 11, 2015 14m not processed

a16z Podcast: What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't

As technology outgrows the tech industry, it moves from selling utilitarian products to selling things that fulfill other desires or pleasures. The Apple Wat...

Mar 5, 2015 23m not processed

a16z Podcast: Embracing Sales

Companies founded by a group of engineers often have a deep-seated mistrust of sales -- or more precisely, salespeople. That was the case at GitHub, says CEO...

Mar 4, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Getting Sales Right

It may seem like good apps or services sell themselves. That's what the whole viral thing is all about, right? Wrong, says Daniel Shapero, who helped build L...

Feb 18, 2015 26m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Marketplace Rules

Online marketplaces are growing much faster than e-commerce overall. Why is that? And what new kinds of marketplaces powered by the internet and mobile are w...

Feb 11, 2015 38m not processed

a16z Podcast: Tools for How We Work Today

You've heard the story: Slack began as a game. But almost exactly 1 year ago today, the internal tool the team built for its own use became a team communicat...

Feb 7, 2015 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Searching for Mobile's Third OS

Consumers seem content with the mobile duopoly we currently have. So what can be gained from a third mobile operating system? If it's an open computing platf...

Feb 3, 2015 27m not processed

a16z Podcast: Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways

A crisis can be an opportunity to change your culture. But you have to get through the crisis first, and that starts with getting to the truth of what happen...

Jan 30, 2015 28m not processed

a16z Podcast: Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)

Apple absolutely crushed its most recent quarter, and unquestionably owns the high-end of the smartphone market, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. So where does An...

Jan 27, 2015 30m not processed

a16z Podcast: Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next

Virtual reality (VR) -- and augmented reality (AR) -- seem to be everywhere these days, showing up in demos and offerings from the world's biggest gadget mak...

Jan 19, 2015 24m not processed

a16z Podcast: Coding as Literacy

Tracy Chou from Pinterest, and Chris Granger and Jamie Brandon from Eve, discuss whether coding is a literacy (or as Granger puts it, a "superpower" ). But a...

Jan 9, 2015 18m not processed

a16z Podcast: The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things?

Does your burglar alarm need to speak to your thermostat? What about your lighting system? And if all those things need to interoperate, how does that happen...

Dec 19, 2014 21m not processed

a16z Podcast: Dumb Storage Gets Smart

Storage as a set of technologies in the datacenter has a conservative reputation when it comes to innovation. Reliability, capacity, speed, and cost -- those...

Dec 18, 2014 31m not processed

a16z Podcast: Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System

What does an operating system for today's datacenter look like? Why do we even need one, and how does it function? Mesosphere's Benjamin Hindman, the co-crea...

Dec 17, 2014 36m not processed

a16z Podcast: Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile

It's been a long and (at times) interesting battle pitching iOS vs. Android. It's time to let it go, says a16z's Benedict Evans. It's time to move on to a ne...

Dec 13, 2014 15m not processed

a16z Podcast: Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things puts intelligence into all kinds of things -- especially in the home, from appliances to light bulbs and door locks. But we still have...

Dec 8, 2014 33m not processed

a16z Podcast: Technology and the Opening of Myanmar

After years of being shut off to the world -- Myanmar is opening itself up. Not just across physical borders, but also the digital. What happens when the vas...

Dec 8, 2014 35m not processed

a16z Podcast: If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

Technology can be an equalizer, especially as new tools democratize the expertise that was previously held only by a limited few. But is coding really the ne...

Dec 5, 2014 34m not processed

a16z Podcast: Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)

VCs wouldn't fund Salesforce ("that obviously won't work") when Marc Benioff began. With the cloud a growing part of practically every company, government, o...

Dec 3, 2014 29m not processed

a16z Podcast: Security’s Wakeup Call

The security landscape is changing. Can companies fight back against an increasingly well-armed and sophisticated set of bad players? “I think it is the begi...

Nov 28, 2014 32m not processed

a16z Podcast: Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs

It might seem that culture at a startup is something that is just intuitive. And in the first days, with the first handful of people, that might be true. But...

Nov 21, 2014 22m not processed

a16z Podcast: Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision

How can ecommerce companies deal with the conflicting expectations of consumers and logistics realities of an on-demand economy? How can they compete with ec...

Nov 21, 2014 57m not processed

a16z Podcast: Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops

The ease with which we can order anything online masks the tremendous complexity of getting that item to your door in a day or two (or less). Andreessen Horo...

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a16z's New Media Playbook

When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market

Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics

Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding

AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power

From Copilots to Agents: Rebuilding the Company Around AI

WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company

Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State

Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI?

How Magic Johnson Built a Billion-Dollar Portfolio in 30 Years

Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?

The State of Markets

Balaji & Benedict Evans: When Tech Breaks Industries

Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES

Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation

David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty

“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents

Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History

Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States

Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection

The Hidden Economics Powering AI

How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents

Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI

From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu

The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives

Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game

Ben Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale

Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

Why a16z's Martin Casado Believes the AI Boom Still Has Years to Run

Where Does Consumer AI Stand at the End of 2025?

Big Ideas 2026: New Infrastructure Primitives

Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack

Big Ideas 2026: Voice Agents and High-Stakes Trust

Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer

Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface

The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

How the Best CEOs Delegate

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

How AI Created the Fastest Product Cycle in History

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About