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 transcribedClearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whether it was the Scottish national party, recent election campaigns, or loca...
"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. Wh...
The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and economic progress — not unlike today’s, in fact —...
“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “we should have it for our medicine.” So while some pe...
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production an...
You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come work for him. Only this time the story turns out...
We live in very interesting times, to say the least -- whether it's a shift in how technology is built and adopted today compared to the past; a chang...
In business, as in politics, "the movement is the message" -- whether that "movement" is a product that's taking off grassroots-st...
There have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the...
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,00...
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have taken...
The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual re...
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Disney's Queen of Katwe, now in theaters. The movi...
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing...
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social network...
"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...
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout...
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once...
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they'...
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programmin...
