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 transcribedGiven that physical retail is expensive, what’s the right distribution mix for startups? In this podcast with Tristan Walker (who is building health a...
Teenage siblings Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian from Atlanta, Georgia join Ben Horowitz for a discussion about the motivation and origins of their new...
The five-year anniversary segment with a16z founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen picks up with a discussion of Clayton Christensen's theories aro...
Around the firm we use “software eats the world” as a guide for how technology will impact every industry and every person – from education to healthc...
Jim Barksdale in the run-up to the Netscape IPO told potential investors that you can make money in software in two ways: bundling and unbundling. Ben...
Peter Levine goes deeper into the changing nature of the data center with Yoram Novick, CEO of Maxta, and Florian Leibert, CEO of Mesosphere. Does ARM...
There is a shift in enterprise hardware from expensive, proprietary hardware to cheap components plucked directly from the consumer hardware supply ch...
Open source software has permeated practically every nook of the software world. The biggest companies and largest-scale systems all lean heavily on o...
Fashion, function or just a fad? Wearable technology is getting huge amounts of attention from companies of every size and stripe. Consumers are slapp...
There are great examples of communities helping to grow and solidify online marketplaces. eBay in its early days certainly leveraged the power of comm...
Apple during its most recent quarter reported growing app store sales and flat iPad sales. Where do tablets go from here, especially in light of the A...
What if we could tap into our government with the same speed and ease as our smartphones and search? Can technology make a difference in how governmen...
One of the ways to damage a fast-growing startup is to not have an HR person. But when is the right time to bring someone on? What qualities should yo...
Managing enterprise networks with thousands of users and endpoints has been hard enough. Now that large enterprise networks routinely include hundreds...
The Google I/O keynote was epic in at least one respect, length. For three hours Google laid out the near horizon for all things Google. This included...
The datacenter has long been -- there's no nice way to put this -- a bit of a snoozer. Expensive boxes running expensive software. No more, says a16z...
People Marketplaces are a lot like eBay -- connecting buyer and seller -- but for services, says a16z General Partner Jeff Jordan. These two-sided ma...
a16z Board Partner Steven Sinofsky and Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie discuss findings from a study of the information economy that has been built...
The announcement by Apple of its new programming language Swift is prompting developers to consider yet again how to tailor their efforts in the battl...
Benedict Evans is a veteran of Apple’s big events and puts all the announcements and demos into one of three categories: 1) all the cool incremental i...
