Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'
Episode Date: July 13, 2020More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pr...
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875 episodes transcribedMore than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pr...
In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits t...
Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performan...
"Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)" by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018. You...
"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015. You can also find and share this es...
"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.You can also fin...
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernste...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on vir...
In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescription...
Gross margins are essentially a company's revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers, and...
As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and al...
In this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and Lauren Richardson discuss research that aims to enhance the ef...
This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focused on prospective home buyers, sellers...
This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, sellers,...
Proteins are molecular machines that must first assemble themselves to function. But how does a protein, which is produced as a linear string of amino...
The way we deliver healthcare has changed enormously over the last century, shifting from house calls by doctors to your own to institutionalized sett...
Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system, but in some ways never set up for success to begin with. We need a new operating...
We cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in t...
Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for crimin...
For a SaaS company, it's easier to move upmarket than down, and this gives SaaS startups the advantage against incumbents. In this episode, David Ule...