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!
1014 episodes transcribedOf the 371 board seats that opened up last year (within Fortune 500 companies that is), 39% ended up going to first-time board members. So how did the...
As technology outgrows the tech industry, it moves from selling utilitarian products to selling things that fulfill other desires or pleasures. The Ap...
Companies founded by a group of engineers often have a deep-seated mistrust of sales -- or more precisely, salespeople. That was the case at GitHub, s...
It may seem like good apps or services sell themselves. That's what the whole viral thing is all about, right? Wrong, says Daniel Shapero, who helped...
Online marketplaces are growing much faster than e-commerce overall. Why is that? And what new kinds of marketplaces powered by the internet and mobil...
You've heard the story: Slack began as a game. But almost exactly 1 year ago today, the internal tool the team built for its own use became a team com...
Consumers seem content with the mobile duopoly we currently have. So what can be gained from a third mobile operating system? If it's an open computin...
A crisis can be an opportunity to change your culture. But you have to get through the crisis first, and that starts with getting to the truth of what...
Apple absolutely crushed its most recent quarter, and unquestionably owns the high-end of the smartphone market, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. So where...
Virtual reality (VR) -- and augmented reality (AR) -- seem to be everywhere these days, showing up in demos and offerings from the world's biggest gad...
Tracy Chou from Pinterest, and Chris Granger and Jamie Brandon from Eve, discuss whether coding is a literacy (or as Granger puts it, a "superpow...
Does your burglar alarm need to speak to your thermostat? What about your lighting system? And if all those things need to interoperate, how does that...
Storage as a set of technologies in the datacenter has a conservative reputation when it comes to innovation. Reliability, capacity, speed, and cost -...
What does an operating system for today's datacenter look like? Why do we even need one, and how does it function? Mesosphere's Benjamin Hindman, the...
It's been a long and (at times) interesting battle pitching iOS vs. Android. It's time to let it go, says a16z's Benedict Evans. It's time to move on...
The Internet of Things puts intelligence into all kinds of things -- especially in the home, from appliances to light bulbs and door locks. But we sti...
After years of being shut off to the world -- Myanmar is opening itself up. Not just across physical borders, but also the digital. What happens when...
Technology can be an equalizer, especially as new tools democratize the expertise that was previously held only by a limited few. But is coding really...
VCs wouldn't fund Salesforce ("that obviously won't work") when Marc Benioff began. With the cloud a growing part of practically every compa...
The security landscape is changing. Can companies fight back against an increasingly well-armed and sophisticated set of bad players? “I think it is t...
