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993 episodes transcribedIn this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Nazanin Daneshvar, co-founder and CEO of Takhfifan, the "Groupon of Iran", shares...
One of the most active and fastest growing open source big data cluster computing projects is Apache Spark, which was originally developed at U.C. Ber...
Investing to make a return both financial AND societal isn't new, but the opportunities to reach and build businesses in communities that have been un...
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Pick your metaphor: Smartphones are "remote controls" for the physical world, or perhaps, as Steve Cheney argues, they're "cursors for...
Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believe...
Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans examines the latest from the world’s most valuable co...
Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Board Partner Steven Sinofs...
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data" sets -- but that's not enough for modeling surp...
with Justin Bailey (@justinbailey12d), Herman Narula (@hermannarula), Tim Schafer (@timoflegend) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) We know that the gaming in...
Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an ex...
If there’s one business on planet earth that makes Silicon Valley look sober and level-headed it’s Hollywood, says Marc Andreessen. Hollywood and Sili...
"Fit" is this squishy idea that a person, role, and company are a perfect match. But how do you tease out expectations and motivations from...
LinkedIn may seem like a gift both for job seekers and hirers, but it's not enough. When (and how) should your company develop a process to attract --...
Users, entrepreneurs, and investors are harnessing bitcoin’s "workaday utility" in Argentina, a place where bitcoin is arguably more widespr...
Andreessen Horowitz Managing Partner Scott Kupor and NetSuite CFO Ron Gill get into the weeds on SaaS valuations, and how public and private SaaS comp...
The battle of the pipes has shifted to mobile. Verizon caught plenty of people by surprise when it announced it was buying AOL for $4.4 billion in cas...
Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under uncertainty. As new players and sources of capital ent...
The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails are over. “You have to make security more useable,”...
Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agility and speed. But unfortunately, security doesn’t l...
