The a16z Show
Episodes
a16z Podcast: The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
“At a moment of great concern about inequality, now comes a learned tome proclaiming the gravity of the inequality problem,” says Larry Summers in...
a16z Podcast: Demystifying Venture Capital
02 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad, Co...
a16z Podcast: When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
30 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Computing is in the midst of a transformation that puts your future device purchases up for grabs. It’s a safe bet that everyone will have a phone, ...
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Fate of Tablets
25 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Apple’s recent earnings sent the stock soaring. What drove that investor exuberance had everything to do with iPhone sales (and the China market), a...
a16z Podcast: The Future Of Television
18 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Can technology companies show up and disrupt television with an onslaught of new gizmos and services, or is content still the controlling factor? What...
a16z Podcast: Engineering a Revolution at Work
10 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
From file cabinets to typewriters, spreadsheets and word processing the tools we use for work change not only what we do, but the culture of our workp...
a16z Podcast: China and Tech
30 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
China has been a tough market to crack for U.S. internet companies. One of the key reasons is China has its own crop of hugely successful and highly i...
a16z Podcast: Oculus and the (Mind-Blowing) Reality of Virtual Reality
28 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Up until now virtual reality has been a disappointment for all those people pining for their own personal holodeck. But advances in the components req...
a16z Podcast: The Rise of Full Stack Startups
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing compan...
a16z Podcast: Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
24 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The mobile experience is still in its 1995 Yahoo phase, a sea of apps and websites without an easy way to find what you want and need on your smartpho...
a16z Podcast: Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
21 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
There is a recurring theme that the tech industry is busy cranking out fluffy social apps rather than hardcore technology. Not the case, say Chris Dix...
a16z Podcast: The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
20 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the state of the Bitcoin ecosystem now that the Mt. Gox dust has settled. What's next ...
a16z Podcast: Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
13 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Apple and Google won the mobile OS war, but the next war – to build big businesses on top of Android and iOS – is just beginning. Andreessen Horow...