The a16z Show

From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1995, just 2% of couples met online. Today, that number has surged to over 50%, making online dating the top way couples connect.In this episode, a...

Human Data is Key to AI: Alex Wang from Scale AI

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if the key to unlocking AI's full potential lies not just in algorithms or compute, but in data? In this episode, a16z General Partner David Geo...

The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li

19 Sep 2024

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, our guests have long been laying...

Apple’s Big Reveals, OpenAI’s Multi-Step Models, and Firefly Does Video

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week in consumer tech: Apple’s big reveals, OpenAI’s multi-step reasoning, and Adobe Firefly’s video model.Olivia Moore and Justine Moore, ...

Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to discuss the grand challenges facing healt...

Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

with @NoahRFeldman, @ahall_research, @rhhackettWelcome to web3 with a16z. I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about governance in m...

It’s Time to Build in Healthcare

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Half of prescribed medications are never taken, and 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Despite spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare—twic...

Latin America: A Tech Powerhouse?

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Latin America is emerging as a tech powerhouse, but it's not a one-size-fits-all market. In this episode, we explore why what works in Argentina won’...

The SSN Breach: What Now?

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we cover the recent data breach of nearly 3B records, including a significant number of social security numbers. Joining us to discus...

Building Innovation Hubs: The UK & Beyond

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode from Web3 with a16z Crypto, is all about innovation on a global scale, exploring both ecosystem and individual talent levels. We examine ...

The Olympics of Talent: France's Tech Boom

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once criticized for lacking ambition, French founders are now aiming to create the world’s largest companies. With a thriving ecosystem attracting t...

Building the World's Most Trusted Driver

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Waymo's autonomous vehicles have driven over 20 million miles on public roads and billions more in simulation.In this episode, a16z General Partner Da...

From AI to Instant Replay: The Technology Behind the Olympics

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Olympics features over 11,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, attracting an audience of more than 10 million.In this episode, Charlie Ebersol, co...

When AI Meets Art

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders beh...

Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gaming is not just entertainment—it's a revolution reshaping our culture, technology, and economy. a16z’s Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen dive into ...

Transitioning From Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Former gymnast and current investor Aly Raisman joins general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Daisy Wolf of a16z Bio + Health.In this episode...

Live at Tech Week: Delivering AI Products to Millions

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Less than two years since the breakthrough of text-based AI, we now see incredible developments in multimodal AI models and their impact on millions o...

Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape & the Birth of the Browser

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Ben & Marc Show," featuring a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. In this special episode, Marc and Ben dive deep into the REAL sto...

The Art of Technology, The Technology of Art

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know that technology has changed art, and that artists have evolved with every new technology — it’s a tale as old as humanity, moving from cav...

Cybersecurity's Past, Present, and AI-Driven Future

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it time to hand over cybersecurity to machines amidst the exponential rise in cyber threats and breaches?We trace the evolution of cybersecurity fr...

The Science and Supply of GLP-1s

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health.Together, they talk about the value ...

The State of AI with Marc & Ben

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this latest episode on the State of AI, Ben and Marc discuss how small AI startups can compete with Big Tech’s massive compute and data scale adv...

Predicting Revenue in Usage-based Pricing

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past decade, usage-based pricing has soared in popularity. Why? Because it aligns cost with value, letting customers pay only for what they u...

California's Senate Bill 1047: What You Need to Know

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On May 21, the California Senate passed bill 1047.This bill – which sets out to regulate AI at the model level – wasn’t garnering much attention...

The GenAI 100: The Apps that Stick

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Consumer AI is moving fast, so who's leading the charge? a16z Consumer Partners Olivia Moore and Bryan Kim discuss our GenAI 100 list and what it tak...

Finding a Single Source of AI Truth With Marty Chavez From Sixth Street

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marty Chavez, vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street Partners, about the foundational role he’s had i...

A Big Week in AI: GPT-4o & Gemini Find Their Voice

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This was a big week in the world of AI, with both OpenAI and Google dropping significant updates. So big that we decided to break things down in a new...

Remaking the UI for AI

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Make sure to check out our new AI + a16z feed: https://link.chtbl.com/aiplusa16z a16z General Partner Anjney Midha joins the podcast to discuss what'...

How Discord Became a Developer Platform

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2009 Discord cofounder and CEO, Jason Citron, started building tools and infrastructure for games. Fast forward to today and the platform has over ...

Securing the Black Box: OpenAI, Anthropic, and GDM Discuss

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Human nature fears the unknown, and with the rapid progress of AI, concerns naturally arise. Uncanny robocalls, data breaches, and misinformation floo...

Can AI Advance Science? DeepMind's VP of Science Weighs In

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, the AI landscape has seen huge advancements, from the release of Dall-E 2 in April 2022 to the emergence of AI music and video models...

Next-Gen Gaming: AI Souls, Real-time Culture, Personalized Avatars

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over 3,700 companies applied to a16z’s SPEEDRUN. In this episode, we meet the founders pushing the boundaries of what games can be.From the fusion o...

Why America Must Lead in AI Investment with Senator Young (R-IN)

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) speaks with a16z General Partner Martin Casado about the importance of open innovation and American leadership in AI, and wh...

Game On: Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The gaming industry stands as a pioneer of cutting-edge technologies, ushering in innovations like GPUs, virtual and augmented reality, physics engine...

Inside the Department of Defense and its Vision for the Future

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From air-defining radar and electronic systems that helped the Allies win World War II, the origins of Silicon Valley are deeply rooted in government ...

Politics & the Future of Tech with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“If America is going to be America in the next one hundred years, we have to get this right.” - Ben HorowitzThis week on “The Ben & Marc Show”...

The Real Price of Healthcare with Mark Cuban

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From judging inventions on “Shark Tank” to reshaping the image of NBA ownership, Mark Cuban is known for many things. In this chat with a16z Gener...

Devoting Your Life to Reinventing a Broken System

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the a16z LP Summit, we brought hundreds of our limited partners and portfolio founders together in Las Vegas.The event was truly overflowing with s...

Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D’Angelo

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI has initiated a transformative shift, reshaping our world in unprecedented ways. In a16z's AI Revolution series, we engage some of the m...

A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nuclear energy accounts for 20% of the electricity in the United States, but remarkably, 2023 marked the commissioning of the U.S.'s first new nuclear...

Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm. But despite the hype around personalized avatars or podcast language translation, artificial int...

From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The last few decades have been a period of transition for defense. An increasing number of startups have begun to rival large defense primes, the indu...

What is American Dynamism?

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American Dynamism. A term coined by a16z General Partner, Katherine Boyle, two years ago, when she and David Ulevitch founded the firm's American Dyna...

The Quest for True Signal: How Zynga Spotted Mobile

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You might recognize the name Mark Pincus but we almost guarantee you recognize the game Farmville. Mark Pincus is the founder and longtime CEO of Zyn...

Beyond Uncanny Valley: Breaking Down Sora

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In early 2024, the notion of high fidelity, believable AI-generated video seemed a distant future to many. Yet, a mere few weeks into the year, OpenAI...

Fraying Wires: The Decentralization of the Electric Grid

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The electric grid needs an update. In this explainer, a16z Partner Ryan McEntush discusses the escalating complexity of the grid, unveils its vulnera...

Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities with Marc and Ben

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Ben & Marc Show" features a16z's co-founders Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen. In this episode, Marc and Ben continue their in-depth exploration of...

Read Write Own: A New Era

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

with @cdixon @rhhackettWelcome to the web3 with a16z crypto podcast. I'm Robert Hackett, an editor here at a16z crypto, and I'm here with Chris Dixon,...

The What, Who, and When with IPOs

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022 and 2023, US IPOs hit decade lows after the record high of 2021. Now, in 2024, will the IPO window reopen?In this episode, we revisit a conver...

Jobs of the Future

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(00:00) - The Future of Jobs(03:15) - Job growth over the last 80 years(05:06) - The shelf-life of jobs(09:11) - Education trends(12:25) - The importa...

Introducing Raising Health: Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Big news from a16z: Bio Eats World, our sibling show from a16z Bio+Health, is now Raising Health!We’re excited to share Raising Health’s first epi...

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this one-on-one conversation, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – what has certainly been a hot topic that’s been dominating the news o...

Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’...

DNA's Potential to Store the World's Data

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nature’s blueprint – DNA – is an incredibly efficient machine. You cannot see it with the naked eye, yet it can last for hundreds, maybe even mi...

A Year of Unlocks: 2023 In AI, Healthcare, Housing, and More

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we close off 2023, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite episodes from the last year. From AI hardware, to healthcare regulation, to disrupting...

The Future of Longevity with Tony Robbins

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen.  In this week’s episode, Marc and Ben are jo...

2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video int...

Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach. Released in...

2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innov...

Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Mensch is the co-founder of Mistral and the co-author of Deepmind’s pivotal 2022 "Chinchilla" paper.In September 2023, Mistral released Mistr...

2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids.
We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big ...

The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One topic at the center of the AI universe this week is a potential breakthrough called Q*. Little has been revealed about this OpenAI project, other ...

Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

with @davidmarcus @smc90This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to...

When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult. But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs ...

The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fei-Fei Li, PhD,  Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, j...

From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to construct a virtual society that authentically replicates human behavior? AI Town, a virtual town experiment where AI residents live...

Fintech Fuels Global Payments

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for multinationa...

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3SdsfNtSubscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3SclPOrRead th...

A New Era of VR: From the Court to the Classroom

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As VR technology inches forward, completely new experiences loom on the horizon.In today’s episode, we expose listeners to the very real-world use c...

When Will AI Hit the Enterprise? Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi Discuss

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode continues our coverage from a16z’s recent AI Revolution event. You’ll hear directly from a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databri...

When AI and Genomics Collide

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode continues our coverage from a16z’s recent AI Revolution event. You’ll hear a16z Bio & Health GP Vijay Pande speak with Daphne Ko...

AI Revolution: Disruption, Alignment, and Opportunity

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – fr...

AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – fr...

Engineering Rapidly Reusable Rockets

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The space industry is evolving rapidly, with the cost of launching payloads to orbit dropping significantly. But who's investing in this sector, and h...

The Evolution of the Satellite Economy

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The cost of launching payloads to orbit has dramatically dropped, igniting a space renaissance. In 2022, a record 186 rocket launches (41 more than th...

AI x Crypto

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

with @alive_eth @danboneh @smc90This week's all-new episode covers the convergence of two important, very top-of-mind trends: AI (artificial intellige...

Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing catch up as they interpret and implement changes....

A True Second Brain

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How many people spend more time organizing their “second brains”, instead of leveraging the information within them? With consumer AI now capable...

Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this exclusive conversation from a16z’s Bio and Health BUILD Summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. Th...

From Big Bang to James Webb: Exploring Space with Nobel Laureate John Mather

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From artificial limbs to memory foam, many inventions have emerged from our quest to understand the cosmos. In this episode we explore cosmic history...

Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With students learning in more places and different ways than we have ever seen, the pace of change in education is dizzying. Can this progress narrow...

The True Cost of Compute

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With software becoming more important than ever, hardware is following suit.As the world generates more data, unlocking the full potential of AI means...

Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With the world constantly generating more data, unlocking the full potential of AI means a constant need for faster and more resilient hardware.In thi...

AI Hardware, Explained

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2011, Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world.” And in the last year, we’ve seen a new wave of generative AI, with some apps beco...

Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the ease of product building, sustainable growth has become increasingly challenging as many traditional channels no longer deliver the same r...

Curing the Trust Problem with Mark Cuban

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is with Mark Cuban, founder of multiple businesses, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, one of the sharks on Shark Tank, and cofounder of...

Inside the 2023 Talent Tsunami: Layoffs, Remote Work & More

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Remote work is a big, divisive topic right now. Some think it’s the future, while others think it was an experiment gone wrong.But it’s also not t...

The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Self-driving cars have been on the horizon for quite some time. But, they might actually be here.We got to ride around in one all over San Francisco w...

Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

with @skominers @smc90In this deep dive and tour through key business concepts, from theory to practice, we cover the topics of strategy, competitive ...

AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word article that aimed to dispel fears over AI's risks to our humanity –...

The Hard Things About Scaling: Executive Hiring with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market...

The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Demand for electric cars is booming. More than 10 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2022, and consumer behavior is changing as more people ...

The Future of Cheese

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande.Together, they...

The Rise of the Exponential Organization

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many companies today are grappling with a few things: an economic downturn, potential layoffs and restructuring, and trying to keep up with the latest...

How Fintech is Reshaping Our $4T Healthcare Industry

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, you’ll hear directly from 6 founders trying to reinvent the healthcare system with the help of Fintech.They’re tackling everythin...

Embedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

2022 was a breakout year for AI. While machine learning had already been integrated into applications for millions of users, for many, these tools sti...

When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most people don’t need a reminder of the state of healthcare in America. But it’s not just the consumer that’s hurting.  Medical debt is increa...

From Promise to Reality: Inside a16z's Data and AI Forum

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang declared in a recent keynote, “we are in the iPhone moment of AI.”This special episode will give you an inside look in...

Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent episode, we delved into the first wave of technology that was used to create digital influencers like 'Lil Miquela back in 2016.Fast forwa...

Insights from the Frontlines of Consumer Tech

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is arguably nothing that impacts our daily lives more than consumer technology. This technology can drive our ability to change careers, build a...