a16z Podcast Podcast
The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders,
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Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s …
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The …
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Theo Jaffee and Sophia Puccini speak with Balaji Srinivasan and Steven Glinert about the shifting balance of power between nations, …
Steven Sinofsky on AI PCs, NVIDIA, and the Future of Computing
Theo Jaffee speaks with Steven Sinofsky about the next generation of personal computing and the growing role of AI-native hardware. The …
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations
Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore speak with Pablo Palafox and Luis Paarup about the challenges of deploying AI agents in operationally complex …
Why $1B Exits are Dead
David George, General Partner at a16z, and David Clark, CIO at VenCap, discuss how AI is reshaping venture capital and the technology …
Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Future of Global Banking
Angela Strange speaks with Dileep Thazhmon, founder and CEO of Jeeves, about building a global financial operating system for enterprises …
Marc Rowan on Private Markets, Software Repricing, and Capital Allocation
In 1990, Marc Rowan walked out of Drexel with his belongings in a cardboard box. Within a year, Apollo was managing $6 billion. David Haber …
Robin Hanson on Prediction Markets, Gambling, and the Future of Forecasting
Theo Jaffee and Sophia Puccini speak with economist Robin Hanson about prediction markets, gambling, and why he believes speculative markets …
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet
Originally aired on MTS segment, Monetary Matters, Jack Farley and Max Wiethe speak with Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp, about what …
Hugging Face's Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble | MTS Live
Clem Delangue joins MTS to discuss the global open-source AI landscape, the current large language model bubble, and the future of consumer …
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email
Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, the premium email client for power users. He previously built the Gmail plug-in Reportive …
Marc Andreessen on AI, California, and the Future of America | Joe Rogan
Marc Andreessen joins Joe Rogan for a conversation on AI, politics, technology, and the future of American society. They discuss how …
Rebuilding The American Shipyard
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Michael Duffey and Dino Mavrookas about what it will take to rebuild the American defense industrial base for …
The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete
David Ulevitch speaks with Col. Jeffrey Glover and Rahul Sidhu about how AI, drones, and sensor networks are reshaping public safety and …
Vitalik Buterin on Human Agency in the AI Era
Sophia Dew and Binji Pande speak with Vitalik Buterin about technology, human agency, and how the internet is changing the way people think, …
Ben Horowitz - "Your ONLY job is Right Product, Right Time"
Ben Horowitz shares lessons from building and scaling companies, drawing on his experience as a founder and CEO. He explains why a founder’s …
Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Turner Caldwell and Drew Baglino about what it will take to close America's critical minerals gap and …
Lloyd Blankfein on Risk, Crisis, and Leadership
David Haber speaks with Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, about leadership, risk, and navigating moments of extreme uncertainty. …
Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI
Erik Torenberg speaks with Marc Andreessen about the state of AI, media, and the broader cultural and economic shifts shaping the internet. …
Ben Horowitz on the Next Technology Era
David Ulevitch speaks with Ben Horowitz about what it means to lead the technology industry at scale, and the responsibilities that come …
Crypto Fund 5: We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
Robert Hackett speaks with the general partners at a16z crypto about the launch of their fifth crypto fund and the current state of the …
The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon
Morgan Brennan speaks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about the next phase of American space exploration and the urgency behind …
Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, with Tony James
David Haber speaks with Tony James about building enduring firms across multiple eras of finance. From joining DLJ when it was a subscale …
Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies
Katherine Boyle speaks with Sarah Rogers, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, about the intersection of AI, free speech, and global …
Balaji and Taylor Lorenz on AI and Media
Theo Jaffee speaks with Balaji Srinivasan and Taylor Lorenz about how AI is reshaping media, trust, and online communication. Building on …
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software
Elena Burger speaks with Joe Schmidt, partner on the enterprise team at a16z, about the future of enterprise software in the age of AI. …
The Shift in Global Drug Development
Theo Jaffee and Gabriel Dickinson speak with Cremieux about China’s rapid rise to the top of global clinical trial output. They discuss the …
John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software
This interview with Stripe cofounders John and Patrick Collison originally aired on TBPN. They discuss Stripe's 34% growth and new employee …
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP PBC, speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, about how venture capital changed from a small, …
AI Inside the Enterprise
Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, and Martin Casado, general partner at a16z, discuss the reality of AI …
Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters
Erik Torenberg speaks with Martin Shkreli, American investor and businessman, about how he sees the AI landscape, from OpenAI to Anthropic, …
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct
Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor, entrepreneur, and author of The Network State , about how AI is …
Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media
Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee speak with Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about the launch of Monitoring the …
Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon
Matt Bornstein speaks with Scott Chacon, cofounder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler, about why Git's user interface has barely changed since …
Network Effects, AI Costs, and the Future of Consumer Investing with Anish Acharya on The Kevin Rose Show
This episode originally aired on The Kevin Rose Show. Kevin Rose speaks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about how AI is …
The System Behind Self-Driving: Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov
Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting there required more than better models. It …
Technology, Culture, and the Next AI Interface with signüll
Erik Torenberg and Anish Acharya, general partners at a16z, speak with signüll about how technology reshapes culture, relationships, and the …
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Jack Neel speaks with Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit, about how AI is making it easier than ever to build and ship software without a technical …
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software
Recorded live at the a16z Fintech Connect conference in Deer Valley, Alex Rampell speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at …
Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect
Katherine Boyle and Sarah Wang speak with Jesse Genet, a startup founder and family builder, about building 11 AI agents while homeschooling …
What Running Windows at Microsoft Taught Steven Sinofsky About Apple
Theo Jaffee speaks with Steven Sinofsky, board partner at a16z and former president of the Windows division at Microsoft, about Apple's 50th …
Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate
Eddy Lazzarin speaks with Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, and Guillaume Verdon, founder and CEO of Extropic, about whether AI progress …
The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie
Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, and Martin Casado speak to Aaron Levie, CEO at Box, about what happens to enterprise software when agents …
Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification
a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor and entrepreneur, about why AI simultaneously reduces the …
Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every …
Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs
This episode originally aired on the Latent Space Podcast. swyx and Alessio Fanelli speak with Marc Andreessen about the arc of AI from its …
Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network
a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, cofounder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, World, and cofounder of Merge Labs. …
What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI
David Haber speaks with Owen Jennings, executive officer and business lead at Block, about how the company rebuilt itself around AI agents, …
How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery
a16z general partners Erin Price-Wright and Erik Torenberg speak with Doug Bernauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, and Drew Baglino, founder …
Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus
This episode originally aired on The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. Marc Andreessen explains why learning from past investment …
The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, …
Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its …
Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting …
The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power …
Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z
Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 - …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
"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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work
Intelligent automation is transforming industries by tackling messy, unstructured workflows that traditional Robotic Process Automation …
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 …
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 …
Crypto Trends for 2025: Stablecoins, App Stores, UX, and More
with @sambroner @meigga @darenmatsuoka @jneu_net @chrislyons and @rhhackett @smc90 Welcome to our special end-of-year episodes -- which also …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 , …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms
with @NoahRFeldman , @ahall_research , @rhhackett Welcome to web3 with a16z . I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 Horowitz This week on “The Ben & Marc …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Read Write Own: A New Era
with @cdixon @rhhackett Welcome to the web3 with a16z crypto podcast. I'm Robert Hackett, an editor here at a16z crypto, and I'm here with …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus
with @davidmarcus @smc90 This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small -- including what cadence and when is the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fintech Fuels Global Payments
Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for …
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3SdsfNt Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Spotify: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
AI x Crypto
with @alive_eth @danboneh @smc90 This week's all-new episode covers the convergence of two important, very top-of-mind trends: AI …
Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?
With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing catch up as they interpret and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3
with @skominers @smc90 In this deep dive and tour through key business concepts, from theory to practice, we cover the topics of strategy, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More
with @amandacassatt @kimbatronic @smc90 All about marketing, and web3 -- not just for marketers already in or seeking to enter web3, but …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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… …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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: …
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90 A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between technology, content, and distribution; as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Crisis Communications 101
In this hallway-style conversation with a16z's Margit Wennmachers, longtime operating partner for Marketing, and Kim Milosevich, CMO for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Technologies & Threads Through the Fabric of Our Lives
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/textiles-technology-science-math-cultures-civilization/ …
Innovating and Deciding, for Companies and People
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/innovating-in-bets/ Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), …
Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/pleistocenepark-geoengineering-iceagebiome/ Longtime podcast …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: YouTube …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization
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Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials
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Degrading Drugs for Problem Proteins: Journal Club now on Bio Eats World (ep 2)
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The New Fan Club: Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto)
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Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz
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The Question of Education
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Pandemic Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect?
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Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond
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Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses
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Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate
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Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans
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Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T
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GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI
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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 …
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. …
Cybercrime, Incorporated
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How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change
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Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'
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Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship
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Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?
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Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare
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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 …
Every Company Is a Fintech Company
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Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
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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 …
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 …
Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You
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Building Products for Power Users
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Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast
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Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)
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Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1)
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World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems
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The Return of Home-based Healthcare
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The Future of Primary Care
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All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say
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What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal
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SaaS Go-to-Upmarket
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Podcasting and the Future of Audio
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Growth in Turbulent Times
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Journal Club: Using CRISPR to Prevent Coronavirus and Influenza Infection
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
What the Narrow Waist of the Internet Means for Innovation Today
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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: …
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 …
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 …
When Bad Policy = Bad Business Models = Bad Public Health
with @JorgeCondeBio, @julesyoo, and @omnivorousread In some ways, the coronavirus feels like it came out of nowhere—a kind of Black Swan …
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 …
Virtual Oncology
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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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Remote Work and Our New Reality
Stay Updated: Find a16z on YouTube: YouTube Find a16z on X Find a16z on LinkedIn Listen to the a16z Show on Spotify Listen to the a16z Show …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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] …
Building the First CAR T Company
with @OzAzamTmunity1, @JorgeCondeBio, and @omnivorousread CAR T therapy, the groundbreaking new medicines that uses engineered T-cells to …
Rebel Talent
When we think about rebellious behavior in the context of organizations and companies, we tend to think of rebels as trouble-makers, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 -- …
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"Hi everyone, welcome to the a16z Podcast..." ... and welcome to our 500th episode, where, for the first time, we reveal behind-the-scenes …
Brand Building Ideas… and People
Many technical founders, academics, and other experts often believe that great products -- or great ideas! -- sell themselves , without any …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Of Emojis and Innovation
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 -- …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, Again
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Beyond Disruption Theory
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michael Copeland Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding …
a16z Podcast: Entrepreneurs, Then and Now
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) A lot in technology -- and venture -- happens …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: The Power of Restorative Justice
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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 …
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with Laurene Powell Jobs (@LaurenePowell) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Laurene Powell Jobs is, among many other things, founder and …
a16z Podcast: What Time Is It? From Technical to Product to Sales CEO
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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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets
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a16z Podcast: Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing
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with Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio), Julie Yoo (@julesyoo), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Building a software company in healthcare is …
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 …
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with Nick Quah (@nwquah), Connie Chan (@conniechan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) It's a podcast about podcasting! About the state of the …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
with Chris Burniske (@cburniske), Joel Monegro (@jmonegro), Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) When designing …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Dark Data in Healthcare
with Susannah Fox (@susannahfox), Anil Sethi (@anilsethiusa / @ciitizencorp), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: All About Stablecoins
with Andy Milenius (@realzandy), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The history, evolution, and use of money revolves …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Russ Heddleston (@rheddleston), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) What …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
with Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) Cryptonetworks are often …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- The Build
with Martin Fischer (@fischermartin), Saurabh Ladha (@ladhasaurabh), Chris Rippingham, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Continuing our …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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" …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: How to Live Longer and Better
with Kristen Fortney (@kpfortney), Jeff Kaditz (@jeffkaditz), David Sinclair (@davidasinclair), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Even …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
with Brandon Ballinger (@bballinger), Mintu Turakhia (@leftbundle), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) There’s …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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... …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 -- …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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; …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 -- …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Sleep!
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that …
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 …
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 …
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/ …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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" …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 -- …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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", …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …