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 transcribedNow that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freem...
"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 tech...
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary move...
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially softwar...
Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that was technically years in the making, building on a...
One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind many successful and highly defensible software comp...
We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an IT builder. Especially for areas where the governm...
"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,...
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an outd...
with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, st...
How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future" for fintech? We're not quite there yet, a...
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 fa...
The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at its most recent annual developer's conference (WWDC)...
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...
Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and compounding in unexpected ways. But just because we...
"Anybody who is interested in China, who's developing things in China, who's doing business with China needs to be thinking about the instinct to...
Everything old is new again when it comes to startup ideas and how technology innovation happens. But practically, how does that apply to starting and...
"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...
In many ways, managing startups is about managing uncertainty: in product, market, and... people. So what happens when changes in the business require...
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" o...
