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 transcribedWe 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...
Innovation or invention? Platform or app? Vertical or horizontal? Strategy or tactic? Does the smartphone eat VR? And (not to get all existential abou...
One of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- including companies, developers, engineers, hobbyists, an...
It almost seems like gospel -- or at least a given -- today for startups to embrace the cloud. Services like AWS have powered an entire generation of...
If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problems -- like health, energy, transportation, cities,...
Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and makes perfect sense in hindsight. This was especially...
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and bu...
