The a16z Show

Big Ideas 2026: The Enterprise Orchestration Layer

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is becoming the orchestration layer inside the enterprise.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we explore the shift from isolated AI copilots to coor...

Big Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is moving from chat to action.In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change is not ...

The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into th...

Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been invol...

The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the p...

Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, th...

Dwarkesh and Ilya Sutskever on What Comes After Scaling

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI models feel smarter than their real-world impact. They ace benchmarks, yet still struggle with reliability, strange bugs, and shallow generalizatio...

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing i...

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, an...

How the Best CEOs Delegate

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious pe...

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.AI coding is already actively changing how softwa...

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Pre...

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She cr...

The Psychology Every Founder Needs Right Now | a16z GP Reveals Secrets to Success

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is en...

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die - and why th...

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader. Resources:Follow Ben on X: htt...

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually ...

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its ...

Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhatt...

The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investin...

How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build ...

The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years, ...

Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" invest...

Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved t...

Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything abo...

Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation wi...

Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the ...

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the g...

Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years. Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket CEO) ...

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR with...

Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever bu...

a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's ...

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without und...

Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg join a16z’s Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala to share how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is bui...

Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Wabi and AI pioneer behind Replika, joins Erik, Anish, and Justine to reveal how personal software will transform from a develop...

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ElevenLabs CEO and co‑founder Mati Staniszewski joins Jennifer Li to explain how the team ships research‑grade AI at lightning speed—from text‑...

David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar, joins Marc, Ben, and Erik to explore what's really happening inside the Trump administration's AI and cry...

Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As global tensions rise, AI and autonomy are transforming how nations prepare for conflict.In this episode, Horacio Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen Hamilt...

Beyond Chatbots: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI's Future

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this closing keynote from a16z’s Runtime conference, General Partner Erik Torenberg speaks with our firm’s cofounders, Marc Andreessen and Ben ...

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation from a16z’s Runtime conference, Gavin Baker, Managing Partner and CIO of Atreides Management, joins David George, General Partn...

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI isn’t just changing software, it’s causing the biggest buildout of physical infrastructure in modern history.In this episode, Raghu Raghuram (a...

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google DeepMind’s new image model Nano Banana took the internet by storm.In this episode, we sit down with Principal Scientist Oliver Wang and Group...

Raghu Raghuram: AI, Robotics, and the Rebirth of Infrastructure

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Netscape to VMware, Raghu Raghuram has been at the center of nearly every major inflection point in enterprise technology.In this episode, Raghu ...

Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Marc Andreessen, Katherine Boyle, and Erik Torenberg dive into the movies that best explain America, from...

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad: English As the New Programming Language

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, joins a16z’s Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg to discuss the new world of AI agents, the future of program...

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, a16z's Anish Acharya joins Kevin Rose for an in-depth, fast-paced conversation on the rebirth of consumer technology, and how AI is r...

How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Augusto Marietti, CEO and cofounder of Kong, has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley history.In this conversation with Martin...

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reid Hoffman has been at the center of every major tech shift, from co-founding LinkedIn and helping build PayPal to investing early in OpenAI. In thi...

Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset, and Marc Andreessen thinks it’s long overdue.In this episode of Monitoring the Situa...

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From politics to technology to real estate, Keith Rabois has bold predictions for America’s next decade.In this conversation with Erik Torenberg, Ke...

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Horowitz founded Loudcloud in the middle of the dot-com bust and sold it for $1.6 billion, then led Andreessen Horowitz from its founding to $46 b...

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan Labenz is one of the clearest voices analyzing where AI is headed, pairing sharp technical analysis with his years of work on The Cognitive Rev...

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the n...

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.In this episode of Monito...

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later.In this...

How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace - Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Opendoor is trying to make it easier to buy a home. Kaz Nejatian just joined as CEO to help them succeed.In this episode, a16z General Partners Alex R...

Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still...

Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two trends in media have been abundantly clear since 2020: legacy media is dying, and independent media is rising.a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg...

Software is Eating Labor

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy,...

The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Co-Founder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig ...

Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re sharing a feed drop from Cheeky Pint, where Stripe cofounder and president John Collison chats with legends in technology over a pint of...

Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach. In this episode, a16z General Partner...

Meta CMO: How Advertising Works Under the Hood

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ads pay for the internet—and they’re about to change again. a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg, entrepreneur and author Antonio García Martínez...

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO ...

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What comes after vibe coding? Maybe vibe researching.OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Jakub Pachocki, and Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, join a16z gene...

Software finally eats services - Aaron Levie

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Should the US put a price on H-1B visas, or would that block the flow of new talent? Are AI coding agents actually making teams way more productive, o...

America's Autism Crisis and How AI Can Fix Science with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is one of the country’s top medical experts and a 24-year professor of medicine at Stanford. After being censored and deplatfor...

Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ...

Charlie Kirk and the Rise of Political Violence

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Honestly with Bari Weiss, we share a special conversation featuring a16z general partner Katherine Boyle in the wake of Charlie Kir...

The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The web is unhealthy, and AI agents are about to rewrite how we shop.In this episode, a16z General Partner Alex Rampell and Partner Justine Moore expl...

How OpenAI Built Its Coding Agent

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s Codex has already shipped hundreds of thousands of pull requests in its first month. But what is it really, and how will coding agents chan...

Faster Science, Better Drugs

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can we make science as fast as software? In this episode, Erik Torenberg talks with Patrick Hsu (cofounder of Arc Institute) and a16z general partner...

Ben Horowitz: Why Hesitation is a CEO’s Worst Enemy

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation from Lenny’s Podcast, Ben Horowitz joins Lenny to discuss the psychological muscle every founder needs, why hesitation can be f...

Inside the $13T Mortgage Machine

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The $13T U.S. mortgage market serves 50M homeowners but still runs on decades-old software. In this episode, a16z GP Angela Strange hosts Tim Mayopou...

Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some consumer products explode into networks that reshape the internet, while others fade away?Today on the podcast, a16z general partners Anis...

Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when AI collides with salesmanship, streaming-era sports, and healthcare?In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by Mark Cuban, entrepr...

The Little Tech Agenda for AI

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who’s speaking up for startups in Washington, D.C.?In this episode, Matt Perault (Head of AI Policy, a16z) and Collin McCune (Head of Government Aff...

Building APIs for Developers and AI Agents

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stainless founder Alex Rattray joins a16z partner Jennifer Li to talk about the future of APIs, SDKs, and the rise of MCP (Model Context Protocol). Dr...

How to Be Free: Shaka Senghor, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Horowitz

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taken from The Oprah Podcast, this special episode brings together Shaka Senghor, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz, and Oprah Winfrey for a powerful conver...

Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is non-consensus investing overrated—or the secret to venture returns?a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg is joined by Martín Casado (General Partn...

Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of VC

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Altman sits down with Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, to unpack the shifting dynamics of venture capital and why media matters more than ...

Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the future of media isn’t controlled by algorithms or legacy institutions—but by independent voices building directly with their audiences...

Katherine Boyle on Shawn Ryan

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Venture capital has powered companies like Facebook and TikTok—but what if that same urgency fueled America’s defense and industrial base? Katheri...

Monopolies vs Oligopolies in AI

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview from the 20VC podcast, Martin Casado (a16z General Partner) joins Harry Stebbings to unpack the state of AI, the rise of coding mode...

The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are real consumers actually doing with AI today?In this episode, a16z consumer investors Olivia Moore and Justine Moore break down the fifth edit...

Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is an AI agent, and how will agents change the way we work?In this episode, a16z general partners Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado sit do...

Ben Horowitz on How a16z Was Built

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Torenberg sits down with Ben Horowitz, Cofounder of a16z, for a candid conversation on venture capital, leadership, and the future of innovation....

AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the future.From the ...

Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Housing and healthcare make up nearly half of household spending, yet both sectors are riddled with inefficiency and rising costs.In this episode, Eri...

Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do tariffs help rebuild American manufacturing or hold it back? In this episode, American Compass founder and chief economist Oren Cass sits down wit...

Dylan Patel: GPT-5, NVIDIA, Intel, Meta, Apple

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI hardware race is heating up, and NVIDIA is still far ahead. What will it take to close the gap?In this episode, Dylan Patel (Founder & CEO, Sem...

Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Genie 3 can generate fully interactive, persistent worlds from just text, in real time.In this episode, Google DeepMind’s Jack Parker-Holder (Resear...

The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Anjney Midha join Erik Torenberg to unpack one of the most dramatic shifts in tech policy in recent memory: th...

H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re sharing an episode from ChinaTalk that dives into one of the biggest recent reversals in U.S. tech policy.The U.S. banned Nvidia’s H20 AI ch...

Grok, Genie 3, GPT-5 & the Rise of Vibe Coding

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

a16z partners Olivia and Justine Moore unpack the latest in consumer AI including: - Grok’s “Imagine” and its instant, social-first creative to...

Alex Danco on Speechwriting, Blogging, and Giving Founders Power

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off the announcement of his move from Shopify to a16z, Alex Danco joins TBPN to talk about the “trade deal” that brought him here and his mi...

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital,...

Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Marc Andreessen joins TBPN for an unfiltered conversation spanning everything from ads in LLMs to why Apple’s AI strategy may be ri...

GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT-5 just launched, marking a major milestone for OpenAI and the entire AI ecosystem.Fresh off the live stream, Erik Torenberg was joined in the ...

How to Build a Successful Company in an Era of Disruption

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a startup becomes a giant—and then has to reinvent itself all over again?In this episode, Martin Casado sits down with Raghu Raghu...