The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
875 episodes transcribedImagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupted by some other streaming-content company that made its DVD rental busin...
Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the physical environment around us -- reshaping fields into cities, redirecting...
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 th...
The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual pivot. It's the courage to make the decision... and b...
The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow needs. How should we be thinking about securing infrastructure -- and ide...
Thanks to freeways, cities became something to get through instead of something to get to. Now, as the next transportation revolution -- from rivers t...
In the age of the internet -- where information is freely available online, and connections between sellers and buyers of software products are visibl...
Once upon a time, Robert Stromberg got a phone call from "Jim" Cameron (aka James Francis Cameron of Terminator and Titanic fame) about a li...
"Punch above your weight" -- If there's one thing public relations (PR) should help startups and founders do, it's that. Unfortunately, some...
The building blocks for VR and AR are finally here -- but the content is just beginning. So everything you'll actually experience and consume in these...
How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for startups and VC...
How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for different tech domai...
"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 co...
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: eithe...
From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level artificial intelligence" in playing an imperfect...
What (on earth) does it take to get a signal to Pluto? Stanford senior scientist and astronomer Ivan Linscott, part of the team that ran the radio sci...
As companies expand out from the internet into the rest of the economy — the proverbial bits to atoms — “the business models are becoming more complic...
As people live longer, aging is more top of mind than ever. This is especially true for the "sandwich generation" wedged between caring for...
"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...
Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecul...
