Jack Altman

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4,592 appearances 200 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard yesterday

Jack Altman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 139 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 24.

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The a16z Show · Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

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The a16z Show · The $100B Niches Hiding Inside Payments · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Payments may be one of the oldest categories in tech, but Max Lubchin argues there are still no small markets inside it. voice-verified

In this episode, I sit down with A16Z General Partner Alex Rampell and Affirm co-founder and CEO Max Levchin to look back at how payments evolved over the last 25 years and where the next major shifts may come from. voice-verified

They revisit the early days of PayPal and the origins of Affirm, including the pajama problem, the first experiments with paying using identity, and the moment the team realized financing wasn't just another checkout option, but a way to materially change conversion. voice-verified

They also discuss why the credit card remains such a durable interface, how 0% financing can have very different economics, and what happens when AI agents begin participating in commerce. voice-verified

Max is skeptical that we'll hand over every shopping decision to AI anytime soon, but he thinks the payment itself may finally be ready for reinvention. voice-verified

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The a16z Show · Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

Before Moderna's mRNA platform helped produce a COVID vaccine, the company was already working toward another goal, using mRNA to fight cancer. voice-verified

A decade later, that bet has reached a major milestone. voice-verified

A sixteen Z general partner Jorge Conde sits down with Moderna CEO Stefan Bansell, following positive phase three results from Moderna and Merck's individualized mRNA treatment for melanoma. voice-verified

It's the culmination of a project Moderna has been working on for roughly a decade. voice-verified

Stefan explains how Moderna takes a patient's tumor, sequences it against their healthy cells, identifies the mutations unique to that cancer, and uses that information to manufacture a personalized mRNA designed to teach the immune system what to attack. voice-verified

And because roughly ninety percent of the selected antigens differ from one patient to another. voice-verified

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