The a16z Show
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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...
Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
with @amandacassatt @kimbatronic @smc90All about marketing, and web3 -- not just for marketers already in or seeking to enter web3, but also anyone do...
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 hardware company during a global pandemic, with the u...
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 millions of followers and has partnered with the likes o...
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 with our fourth edition of the Marketplace100 –...
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 Sriram and Aarthi from the Good Time Show, who ve...
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 former, but in this episode we chose to highlight the...
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 essential for creating the processors that would eventuall...
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 medical bill or a more minor parking ticket… even ...
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, and the industry was experiencing a nuclear winte...
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 skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with deve...
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, billion! — since the launch of the App Store in ...
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 like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs...
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 Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Healt...
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 idea that startups in their fields could tackle in ...
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 idea that startups in their fields could tackle in ...
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 cofounder and best man, Alex Fielding. Listeners get an...
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 reality is that we often resist change.That’s wh...
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, and more. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/c7Sc...
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 technology, content, and distribution; as well as Bo...
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 entrepreneurs, to top creators, to some of the most fo...
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 mercantile empire. That was in… 1560. In the centu...
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 technical challenges.Biomass pyrolysis via Charm Indus...
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’s much still unknown, in this episode we get the ...
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 — about what it might take to jumpstart the market ...
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 Nan Ransohoff to talk about this exact problem as ...
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 with a16z Growth Editor Das Rush. They start with...
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 shelves of “science fiction”. While the bo...
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 trying to build the most efficient factories on the p...
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 world becomes more digital, it also becomes more dist...
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 recent months, wowing the masses with their uncanny...
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 bright side of technology, alongside the founders bui...
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 the reality is that not all “space” is the same...
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 the world of technology. Brought to you by the mi...
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 Lai join bio editorial lead Olivia Webb to discuss ...
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 episode features Chris Dixon – founding general partn...
The Future of Audio
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Audio is no longer just audio anymore -- podcasts now pull from new video platforms like TikTok and older ones like radio, user experience is growing ...
Culture as Code
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While building and shaping culture is as relevant as ever for startups and companies today, leaders have sought the answers to these questions for hun...
On Mentorship and Leadership
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Behind many great leaders, you’ll usually find a great mentor. The mentor-mentee relationship is often one of the most important and most fulfilling...
Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology in...
How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from February 2019, Jyoti Bansal, founding CEO of AppDynamics and co-founder of Unusual Ventures, joins a16z general partner Peter Lev...
The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, student loans are back in the news, with the administration's announcement of a plan to forgive student loan debt for certain kinds of borr...
How to Make Better Decisions
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can you get better at decision-making with practice? Many founders, investors, and builders must make many critical decisions, big and small, every da...
Learning from Open Source Communities
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from the evolution of open source communities and how might they be applied to online communities and the creator economy today? Aut...
The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s moderating a live panel discussion, managing your (virtual) All Hands meeting, or even guiding a cross-functional team to a decision in...
Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the success of TikTok's algorithmically-driven product tell us about the future of creators and the creator economy, product design, and inn...
From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from December 2018, Hennessy, currently the chairman of Alphabet as well as Turing Award-winning computer scientist, joins a16z co-fou...
Crisis Communications 101
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this hallway-style conversation with a16z's Margit Wennmachers, longtime operating partner for Marketing, and Kim Milosevich, CMO for a16z crypto, ...
All About Synthetic Biology
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 20 years, the idea of “designing biology” has gone from science fiction to just science, as the field of synthetic biology has explo...
Mining the Data for Cobalt
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from July 2019, Kurt House, CEO and co-founder of Kobold Metals, John Thompson, professor of earth and geosciences at Cornell; and Con...
Applying AI in B2B
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from October 2019, People.AI founder and CEO Oleg Rogynskyy and a16z partner Peter Lauten discuss with Das Rush about what the rise of...
More from Less: The Environment, Capitalism, and Technology
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from October 2019, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and former a16z podcast showrunner Sonal Choksi bring on MIT economist and bestsell...
Blockchains, crypto, & web3: Connections, models, more
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain, crypto, web3 – these terms get thrown around a lot and sometimes interchangeably, but what are the actual connections between them? And ...
Crypto, an Oral Essay
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special “innovation overview” episode from April 2021, the a16z crypto team and other experts take you from the ground up of crypto and we...
Stories of Startup Survival Mode
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at ...
Innovating While Scaling: Lessons from Amazon
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr -- in conversation with a16z's Sonal Chokshi -- go beyond the well-kn...
When Gross Margins Matter
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gross margins–which are essentially a company’s revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to custo...
The Founder to Investor Journey
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a special crossover episode from June 2021: Joel Beasley, host of the Modern CTO podcast, interviews a16z general partner David Ule...
Inside Apple Software Design
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple...
Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this re-run from September 2018, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. Ho...
Designing a Culture of Reinvention
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from September 2020, originally recorded for the Commonwealth Club of California, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hasting talks about ...
The Basics of Growth Marketing: Engagement & Retention
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After achieving product-market fit and starting to gain users, how do startups then avoid the "leaky bucket" problem of losing users as quickly as the...
The Basics of Growth Marketing: User Acquisition
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once known as “growth hacking”, the concept of Growth has now evolved into an entire discipline that spans marketing, product management, user exp...
The Great Data Debate
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over a decade after the idea of “big data'' was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all s...
Principles for Work and Life
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the face of great uncertainty, how do you make decisions? Can you really apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future, to navigate s...
How the Internet Happened
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com bo...
Technologies & Threads Through the Fabric of Our Lives
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/textiles-technology-science-math-cultures-civilization/Longtime podcast ...
Innovating and Deciding, for Companies and People
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
original episode notes and transcript here: https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/innovating-in-bets/Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), primary host...