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 transcribedThe security landscape is changing. Can companies fight back against an increasingly well-armed and sophisticated set of bad players? “I think it is t...
It might seem that culture at a startup is something that is just intuitive. And in the first days, with the first handful of people, that might be tr...
How can ecommerce companies deal with the conflicting expectations of consumers and logistics realities of an on-demand economy? How can they compete...
The ease with which we can order anything online masks the tremendous complexity of getting that item to your door in a day or two (or less). Andreess...
In this wide-ranging discussion about the latest and next consumer and industrial applications for 3D printing, we examine (with Shapeway's Carine Car...
What happens when the importance of access to things trumps the value of owning those same things? The end of ownership. From computer hardware, to ho...
The modern, average 12-year-old Madden NFL videogame player has actually visualized more plays than any past real-life NFL Hall-of-Famer. And now, fo...
With 15 million fantasy football players angling for the win in thousands of fantasy leagues, ESPN joined Tilt.com for a discussion about how crowdfun...
Don Faul, head of operations at Pinterest and a former U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Commander, grills Marc Andreessen in front of a crowd of veterans at...
It’s always hard to predict how a generational shift in technology will impact the wider world, especially when you are in the trenches building that...
It’s well understood that bitcoin can be used to buy and sell things/services, and the ecosystem of people accepting the cryptocurrency as payment is...
What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company and...
It's a myth that startups happen in isolation. Those legendary two people in a garage are often building on the deep and basic research -- long funded...
Jonah Peretti is building BuzzFeed to “inform, inspire and entertain” in a world where news and entertainment is increasingly passed around on social...
Software, and the billions of transistors that power it, has brought about massive change to all kinds of industries, but none more so than the news b...
Nir Eyal and Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover, the authors of "Hooked, How to Build Habit-Forming Products," discuss the theory and practice of th...
Have we as a culture become expert at globalizing industries, but are we failing when it comes to truly world-changing technological breakthroughs? Is...
NFC (near field communication) technology has been around for about a decade, and with the exception of transit cards mostly outside the United States...
It’s a problem most entrepreneurs would love to face, a massive valuation offer from investors for the startup they’ve been killing themselves over. B...
Profitless Ponzi scheme, or the greatest company in the world led by an absolute genius? Amazon is a polarizing company. Quarter after quarter, as it...
