The a16z Show 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 show 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!
993 episodes transcribedThere have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the...
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,00...
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have taken...
The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual re...
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Disney's Queen of Katwe, now in theaters. The movi...
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing...
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social network...
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires...
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout...
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once...
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they'...
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programmin...
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freem...
"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. But why is this so key and yet so hard for many tech...
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary move...
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially softwar...
Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that was technically years in the making, building on a...
One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind many successful and highly defensible software comp...
We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an IT builder. Especially for areas where the governm...
"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago,...
