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 transcribedFor Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to...
Optimizely is a superb example of the democratization of software development. You don't need an engineering degree to fire up Optimizely and start te...
“At a moment of great concern about inequality, now comes a learned tome proclaiming the gravity of the inequality problem,” says Larry Summers in a c...
What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad, Cowb...
Computing is in the midst of a transformation that puts your future device purchases up for grabs. It’s a safe bet that everyone will have a phone, an...
Apple’s recent earnings sent the stock soaring. What drove that investor exuberance had everything to do with iPhone sales (and the China market), and...
Can technology companies show up and disrupt television with an onslaught of new gizmos and services, or is content still the controlling factor? What...
From file cabinets to typewriters, spreadsheets and word processing the tools we use for work change not only what we do, but the culture of our workp...
China has been a tough market to crack for U.S. internet companies. One of the key reasons is China has its own crop of hugely successful and highly i...
Up until now virtual reality has been a disappointment for all those people pining for their own personal holodeck. But advances in the components req...
Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing compan...
The mobile experience is still in its 1995 Yahoo phase, a sea of apps and websites without an easy way to find what you want and need on your smartpho...
There is a recurring theme that the tech industry is busy cranking out fluffy social apps rather than hardcore technology. Not the case, say Chris Dix...
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the state of the Bitcoin ecosystem now that the Mt. Gox dust has settled. What's next...
Apple and Google won the mobile OS war, but the next war – to build big businesses on top of Android and iOS – is just beginning. Andreessen Horowitz...
