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 transcribedIf network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that may be especially true of data network effects -- a...
It's not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too. Or so ar...
The mobile world has fallen hard for VR, says Benedict Evans. But will virtual reality mean real profit for hardware makers? Evans offers his observat...
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 application...
Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered "boring" because it is so invisible to so many of...
The principal political binary of the past century was the political 'left versus right'. But in the 21st century the binary has shifted -- the battle...
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 companies (like We...
During his “Stratos” jump Felix Baumgartner fell faster than the speed of sound, reaching an estimated speed of 833.9 mph plummeting from the edge of...
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 at the firm...
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 latest startup...
Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business -- from raising funds to moving money from one person t...
From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- such as entrepreneurs -- do a lot of different thing...
Your homeowner’s insurance didn’t anticipate Airbnb. Your car insurance certainly didn’t see Lyft and Uber coming. And when your car drives itself, it...
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 place you migh...
We often hear stats like “more people have mobile phones than toilets” about places like Africa, but what does that actually mean for people? “It is b...
The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thriller. Nation states are after your company’s most val...
Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, sensors, and batteries all get mixed and matched i...
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 work easier,...
In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from an episodic event to an almost continuous release...
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 clear. Data ha...
