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 transcribedThe NFL has descended upon Silicon Valley for Superbowl 50, and a16z was fortunate to have 30 of the world’s best football players post-up at the firm...
Max Levchin helped build PayPal. Then he went onto tackle gaming at Slide. Now he’s back in the world of payments and finance with his latest startup...
Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business -- from raising funds to moving money from one person t...
From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- such as entrepreneurs -- do a lot of different thing...
Your homeowner’s insurance didn’t anticipate Airbnb. Your car insurance certainly didn’t see Lyft and Uber coming. And when your car drives itself, it...
There are fewer and fewer parts of our lives that don't feel like an extension of our smartphones. Any song you might want to hear. Any place you migh...
We often hear stats like “more people have mobile phones than toilets” about places like Africa, but what does that actually mean for people? “It is b...
The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thriller. Nation states are after your company’s most val...
Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, sensors, and batteries all get mixed and matched i...
For as long as there has been software we have had this collective hope -- maybe more of a desire -- that software will make all kinds of work easier,...
In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from an episodic event to an almost continuous release...
Every organization these days is clear about the need to get its data act together. But that doesn’t mean the path toward data bliss is clear. Data ha...
The old constraint when it came to technology was hardware -- how many CPUs can I get my hands on. Today, spinning up compute can be done from any sma...
As software becomes core to every industry, there is a need for more and more software development across practically every department in a company. B...
Chris Milk calls virtual reality the “ultimate empathy machine.” The filmmaker and founder of VR shop Vrse talks with a16z’s Chris Dixon about how vir...
You know how talented Andre Iguodala is as a basketball player. You may not know that he signed with the Warriors in part to be near Silicon Valley an...
Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, sits down with Ben Horowitz during a16z's 2015 Tech Summit for a wide ranging conversation on investin...
Benedict Evans highlights the past year in mobile. From Apple's ongoing rule of the high-end, to Android's spread farther down the price curve. Withou...
Our virtual reality-enabled future is arriving, but it’s hard to know -- as it is with every new technology platform -- how quickly we’ll all make the...
India and China. The two most populous countries on the planet are also two of the most tantalizing markets for companies of all size, from startups t...
