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.” - ...
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 k...
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 i...
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 a1...
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...
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 avata...
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 ...
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 a...
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. ...
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...
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 esca...
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, M...
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 h...
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 ...
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 j...
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’...
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 be...
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 St...
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 nake...
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...
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 Andreesse...
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 m...
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...
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 ...
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 "Chinchill...
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 aske...
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 h...
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 -- incl...
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 c...
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-Direc...
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,...
Fintech Fuels Global Payments
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more cha...
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 & Mar...
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...
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 dir...
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 a16...
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 ...
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 ...
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 signif...
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 2...
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,...
Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With recent landmark legislation being passed around salary transparency, many companies are playing...
A True Second Brain
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How many people spend more time organizing their “second brains”, instead of leveraging the info...
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 Horow...
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 ...
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 ...
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 m...
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 ...
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 see...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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 ...
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 pract...
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 t...
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 ...
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,...
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 +...
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 re...
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 wit...
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 application...
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 c...
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.”Th...
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 inf...
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 technolog...
Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
with @amandacassatt @kimbatronic @smc90All about marketing, and web3 -- not just for marketers alrea...
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People often say that building a hardware company is like “playing on hard mode”. Building a har...
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably heard of ‘Lil Miquela. The 19 year-old Brazilian-American influencer has millio...
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last decade, we’ve seen the marketplace model evolve and grow, and this year a16z is back...
The Art and Science of Podcasting
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s both easier and harder than ever to build a successful podcast. In this episode, we chat with...
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With every new technology, some jobs are lost while others are gained. People often focus on the for...
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in the 1960s, technology companies, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, were essentia...
The Robot Lawyer Resistance
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you don’t have the resources to fight for your rights? Whether it’s a major me...
The Challenge of Replicating Reality
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you believed in an idea but everyone said it would fail, nobody would fund you,...
The 1000x Developer
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the s...
The State of Apps
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, ...
Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt...
Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this cross-over episode from Bio Eats World, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins...
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big i...
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big i...
The Human Behind the Genius
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, we share never heard before footage from Steve Wozniak alongside his cofoun...
Building for Tomorrow
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New year, new you! Right?Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the ...
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, ...
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between te...
Best Clips of 2022
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve had some incredible guests join us on the a16z podcast this year, ranging from moonshot entr...
Pay Without Borders with Deel, GitLab, and Safetywing
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The predecessor to the office was Florence’s Uffizi Gallery – an admin building to the Medici me...
Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we tackle three carbon removal projects of varying scale, business models, and tech...
Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard of the recent FTX scandal.While there’...
Building a Marketplace for Carbon
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part 1 of our carbon removal series, we talked to Nan Ransohoff — Head of Climate at Stripe —...
The Economics of Carbon Removal with Nan Ransohoff
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when there’s demand for a solution that doesn’t quite exist yet?Today, we bring on ...
Ryan Petersen on Rearchitecting the Supply Chain
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we have a special treat. Flexport’s co-CEO and Founder, Ryan Petersen, chats...
Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Neal Stephenson coined “the metaverse” three decades ago, his book Snow Crash was found on ...
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have an episode with Chris Power, the founder and CEO of Hadrian. Hadrian is a company try...
Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan. As the wor...
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have taken the world by storm in r...
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With much coverage of technology lined with pessimism, the a16z Podcast returns to highlight the bri...
The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people consider space to be the next frontier and equally an infinite horizon to explore. But t...
The a16z Podcast Returns
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The long-standing (and chart-topping) a16z Podcast returns to cover the most important topics within...
Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode from a16z’s Bio Eats World podcast, general partners Vijay Pande and Jon L...
Cycles of Computing, Now and Next
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a special episode for you, from our newest podcast, "web3 with a16z" . This episo...