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!
1010 episodes transcribedIt's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to...
Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a &qu...
Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to...
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)'s "Belief",...
We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would have been hard to imagine. Not so much that the tw...
The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its sh...
Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web b...
There is a stream of the world's largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. But how do they find it, and then, how do they bri...
Mention Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, and you’ll elicit a strong opinion. In 2004, one hedge fund manager labeled Byrne the mos...
Podcasts and podcasting have been around a while, but seem to be going through a renaissance of sorts -- partly enabled by connected cars and other te...
Financial services are overdue for an overhaul. With a16z's newest general partner, Alex Rampell (who just officially started), this segment of the po...
Apple included support for ad blocking in its recent iOS 9 update, and for many that prompted discussions around an age-old question: Is traditional a...
There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: ge...
The internet as it has evolved in the United States is perhaps the best example of “permissionless innovation” -- the idea that you can innovate witho...
Legendary investor Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's financial partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) invokes a set of interdisciplinary &quo...
Apple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other company is likely to knock it from its perch in the near...
South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recovered from the Rodney King riots of 1992. In South Cent...
Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science to the web browser itself. Yet the process of mov...
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin develop...
Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in a society where the proxy for value is capital an...
