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 transcribedApple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other company is likely to knock it from its perch in the near...
South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recovered from the Rodney King riots of 1992. In South Cent...
Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science to the web browser itself. Yet the process of mov...
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin develop...
Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in a society where the proxy for value is capital an...
Longtime New York Times technology and science writer John Markoff joins the a16z Podcast to discuss our changing relationship with technology and mac...
Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer on the WeChat phenomenon, a16z partner Connie Cha...
After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their att...
Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, t...
How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about getting them anyway? And in the middle of that mental...
As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever more critical. Whether it’s for dating or sending...
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton, the st...
When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to go into it advocating for you...
There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or b...
The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best people is compensation. It seems straightforward, but i...
There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questio...
Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech wor...
Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But...
We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation...
It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven compan...
