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 transcribed"Fit" is this squishy idea that a person, role, and company are a perfect match. But how do you tease out expectations and motivations from...
LinkedIn may seem like a gift both for job seekers and hirers, but it's not enough. When (and how) should your company develop a process to attract --...
Users, entrepreneurs, and investors are harnessing bitcoin’s "workaday utility" in Argentina, a place where bitcoin is arguably more widespr...
Andreessen Horowitz Managing Partner Scott Kupor and NetSuite CFO Ron Gill get into the weeds on SaaS valuations, and how public and private SaaS comp...
The battle of the pipes has shifted to mobile. Verizon caught plenty of people by surprise when it announced it was buying AOL for $4.4 billion in cas...
Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under uncertainty. As new players and sources of capital ent...
The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails are over. “You have to make security more useable,”...
Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agility and speed. But unfortunately, security doesn’t l...
"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intel...
If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, the question for individuals and startup teams alike...
The paradox of security is we pretty much know what we are supposed to do most of the time -- but we don’t do it. If you examine all the recent high p...
Silicon Valley and the U.S. Department of Defense have had a long history of partnership -- including the government funding R&D that was commerci...
When (now) two-year-old startup Zenefits was banned in Utah because it offered its HR management software for free, CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad f...
Bitcoin has not been easy for Wall Street and other traditional financial centers to wrap their collective heads around, let alone take seriously. But...
It seems like we hear about corporate (not to mention consumer) hacks in the news every week. Is this something new, or just a continuation of old pat...
It is something we all face -- the prospect of taking care of a parent (or two) when they can't quite take care of themselves. For Seth Sternberg, par...
The potential to turn messaging into a platform is driving much of the excitement in mobile, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. It's a platform through which...
Cyber attacks are growing in number and impact, and the reason is simple: there's more of value (and more vectors to) steal in our increasingly virtua...
As the CEO of a startup your board is a critical tool in helping your company grow; the board is there to make you a better CEO. (Or at least it shoul...
Getting a board seat isn't just about adding value, but also about what value you take from it for your career. But why do it? When? How? And should y...
