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!
1009 episodes transcribedIn 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...
Clearly 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...
