The a16z Show
Episodes
a16z Podcast: Inside Apple Software Design
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join longtime Apple software engineer Ken Kocienda in conversation with a16z Deal and Research operating partner Frank Chen for an insider’s account...
a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the a16z Podcast -- which originally aired as a video on YouTube -- general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur a...
a16z Podcast: A Podcast About Podcasting
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Nick Quah (@nwquah), Connie Chan (@conniechan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) It's a podcast about podcasting! About the state of the industry, that...
a16z Podcast: How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
30 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) What does Apple's recent event — in which a range of new services was announced,...
a16z Podcast: Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Safi Bahcall (@safibahcall), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) A "moonshot" is a destination (like going to the moo...
a16z Podcast: For the Billions of Creatives Out There
16 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The writer-showrunner is a relatively new phenomenon in ...
a16z Podcast: Lessons Learned from Chinese Education Startups
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When people talk about trends in education technology, they often focus on how to disrupt higher education in the U.S., whether it's about breaking fr...
a16z Podcast: What's in the Water at the George Church Lab?
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with George Church (@geochurch) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio) Renowned scientist George Church is known for his groundbreaking work and methods use...
a16z Podcast: Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Peter Ludwig, Qasar Younis (@qasar), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) When people talk about autonomous vehicles, we hear everything from "we're m...
a16z Podcast: Gaming Goes Mainstream
17 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard (a merger he engineered); it's one of only two video gaming companies in the Fortune 500, and the large...
a16z Podcast: Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Ryan Caldbeck (@ryan_caldbeck), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) It's clear that all kinds of commerce companies and consum...
a16z Podcast: To All the Robots I've Loved Before
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Kate Darling (@grok_) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We already know that we have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize robots. But beyond j...
a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Chris Burniske (@cburniske), Joel Monegro (@jmonegro), Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) When designing cryptonetworks -...
a16z Podcast: Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks
10 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Phil Daian (@phildaian) and Ali Yahya (@ali01) Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kin...
a16z Podcast: Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Jyoti Bansal (@jyotibansalsf), Peter Levine, Satish Talluri (@satishtalluri), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the toughest challenges for found...
a16z Podcast: Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Mark Leslie (@mleslie45) and Peter Levine What does it actually take to win at enterprise sales? In this episode, Mark Leslie, former CEO and cha...
a16z Podcast: Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Peter Levine, Bob Tinker, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For consumer companies, often when the holy grail of product-market fit is achieved,...
a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Veterinary oncology can inform human oncology, and vice versa -- providing a better model for looking at drug performance, interrelationships, and mor...
a16z Podcast: The Business of Cybercrime
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Joel de la Garza, Jonathan Lusthaus, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of the cybercriminal as lone wolf or hobby hacker is no longer m...
a16z Podcast: Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) puts the latest and greatest devel...
a16z Podcast: Dark Data in Healthcare
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Susannah Fox (@susannahfox), Anil Sethi (@anilsethiusa / @ciitizencorp), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The problem of &qu...
a16z Podcast: The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with Vas Narasimhan (@vasnarasimhan), Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)On average, only 1 out of 20 ...
a16z Podcast: All About Synthetic Biology
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
with James J. Collins, Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of 'designing biology' -- once science fiction -- has ov...
a16z Podcast: What’s Next for Marketplace Startups (Hint: Services)
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The past and future of marketplace startups -- where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers and sellers of, well, ju...
a16z Podcast: Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
29 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) This episode of the a16z Podcast features the rare combinatio...
a16z Podcast: How the Internet Happened
24 Dec 2018
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...
a16z Podcast: All About Stablecoins
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Andy Milenius (@realzandy), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the im...
a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Bernard J. Tyson (@bernardjtyson) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-...
a16z Podcast: Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Where are we, really, right now -- in terms of what we can/...
a16z Podcast: On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman (@MegWhitman), and Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) In this episode of the a16z Podcast, based on a discussion that took...
a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Boris Sofman (@bsofman), Dave Touretzky (@DaveTouretzky), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We're just now beginning to truly see the the first ...
a16z Podcast: Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Is it possible that ancient Greeks and Romans dreamed of technological innovations li...
a16z Podcast: M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
17 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Stephanie Cohen and Martin Casado (@martin_casado) As chief strategy officer of Goldman Sachs (and former global head of financial sponsors M&...
a16z Podcast: Automation + Work, Human + Machine
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Prasad Akella, Paul Daughtery (@pauldaugh) and Frank Chen (@withfries2) What is different on that factory floor from Henry Ford to today? In this...
a16z Podcast: Eyeballs on the Game
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Yogi Roth (@YogiRoth), Zack Weiner and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For decades, the increasing value of sports tea...
a16z Podcast: From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The period from 2000-2016 was one of the best of times and worst of times for tech and the Valley (dotcom, financial crisis, Google IPO, Facebook foun...
a16z Podcast: How to Manage a PR Agency
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Shannon (Stubo) Brayton (@sstubo), Margit Wennmachers (@wennmachers), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the company building topics that’s surp...
a16z Podcast: New Upstarts in an Old Industry
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Michael Ovitz (@michaelovitz), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) When Michael Ovitz co-founded the Hollywood talent a...
a16z Podcast: Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's all sorts of interesting tech trends happening right now, including AI, VR/AR, self-d...
a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofsky (@SteveSi) In another of our hallway conversation episodes, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsk...
a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofksy (@StevenSi) In this hallway-style conversation episode of the a16z Podcast, Benedict Evans an...
a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) There's a lot of research and writing out there on "thin...
a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Cal Turner Jr., and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The "death of retail" in the face of e-commerce and tech...
a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
25 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Russ Heddleston (@rheddleston), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) What happens when t...
a16z Podcast: Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel), Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) The open source movement enabled so much in computing,...
a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Once you have users, how do you keep them engaged, retain them,...
a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Growth is one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneu...
a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) and Sharon Chang (@sychang) What does it really take to start a startup (or work at one)? In this episode of the a16z P...
a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) Cryptonetworks are often compared to ...
a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) “Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcomes.” At the end...
a16z Podcast: High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Elad Gil (@eladgil) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's a lot of knowledge out there -- and networks of talent (especially in Silicon Valley) -- on...
a16z Podcast: The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Katie Haun (@katie_haun), Robin Weisnman (@robinweisman), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) What’s going on, regulation-wise, in crypto? How should pe...
a16z Podcast: Building Companies in Crypto, from People to Code
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Tina Bhatnagar (@tinab), Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi), Lily Liu (@calilyliu), and Kim Milosevich (@kimbatronic) Whether it’s sharing the de...
a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Elizabeth Stark (@starkness), and Jessica Verrilli (@jess) Why does decentralization matter? This episode of the a16z Podc...
a16z Podcast: The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), David Reich, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Trying to reconstruct the deep past of ancient humans out of presen...
a16z Podcast: On Mentors and Mentees
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Ken Coleman, Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) Everyone talks about the importance of mentorship in our professional...
a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) The rise of zero-sum thinking -- which has come snappi...
a16z Podcast: All Things Compensation
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Compensation is a topic near and dear to everyone’s heart… but what does “compensation” fully mean — and what does it include, what doesn’...
a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- The Build
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Martin Fischer (@fischermartin), Saurabh Ladha (@ladhasaurabh), Chris Rippingham, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Continuing our series on how...
a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Greg Lynn (@greglynnform), Gina Neff (@ginasue), Tracy Young (@Tracy_Young), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Construction has been one of the ...
a16z Podcast: The End (and Beginning) of Programming
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 20 million programmers out there -- and double that, if you count everyone else coding in other ways -- but where are the next 100 mill...
a16z Podcast: The Hard Things about Security
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the hard thing about security: the more authentication factors you have, the more secure things are... but in practice, people won't use too ma...
a16z Podcast: Autonomy in Service
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Gregory Allen (@Gregory_C_Allen), Gayle Lemmon (@gaylelemmon), Ryan Tseng, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We now live in a world where connec...
a16z Podcast: When Journalism Goes Global
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the organization responsible for the compilation and release of the first the Panama Pape...
a16z Podcast: B2B2C
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to B2B2C business models -- which combine both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) -- who really "owns"...
a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“The rules of the game are different in tech,” argues — and has long argued, despite his views not being accepted at first — W. Brian Arthur, ...
a16z Podcast: The Oral History Of TrialPay — Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this hallway-style conversation (originally recorded as a video), a16z general partner Alex Rampell and Terry Angelos, SVP of Commerce Solutions ...
a16z Podcast: Shifting Risk Mindsets, From Tech to Bio
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What challenges do first-time founders or tech founders encounter when building companies in the bio space, and how do they differ from traditional te...
a16z Podcast: The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Signaling and credential inflation -- not learning -- can exp...
a16z Podcast: Breaking Into Bio
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Atul Butte (@atulbutte), Daphne Koller (@daphnekoller), and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) Whether you’re an academic seeking to move out of researc...
a16z Podcast: Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
21 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Ray Dalio (@raydalio), Alex Rampell (@arampell), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Can one really apply the lessons of history and of the past to the pr...
a16z Podcast: On Recent Consolidation in the Healthcare Industry
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the healthcare headlines lately have been about consolidation in the industry: Walmart and Humana; Aetna and CVS; Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berks...
a16z Podcast: Players and Paths for Healthcare Startups
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The creation of each new biotechnology enables a tool, a therapy, or a diagnostic: a molecule, a protein, an app, a platform. And the process undernea...
a16z Podcast: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hypothesis, test, revise -- that's science. Engineering, however, doesn't quite go that way: You have parts you know and understand (like legos), and ...
a16z Podcast: What to Know about GDPR
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Lisa Hawke (@ldhawke) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) Given concern around data breaches, the EU Parliament finally passed GDPR (General Data Prot...
a16z Podcast: Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv), Jez Humble (@jezhumble) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) From the old claim that "IT doesn't matter" and questio...
a16z Podcast: From Teaching Leadership to Being a Leader
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Few operators become VCs, and even fewer go back to leading companies... so how does these perspectives change how one leads? Obviously, it's a lot ea...
a16z Podcast: Improv'ing Leadership
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership is not just about management, but about passion, a bit of humor, and resilience. General partner Peter Levine and Dick Costolo (entrepreneu...
a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Focusing only on the technical, "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the humanity at the center of why we're ...
a16z Podcast: How to Live Longer and Better
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Kristen Fortney (@kpfortney), Jeff Kaditz (@jeffkaditz), David Sinclair (@davidasinclair), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Even without a myth...
a16z Podcast: The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Cristina Cordova (@cjc), Augusto Marietti (@sonicaghi), Laura Behrens Wu (@laurabehrenswu), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) APIs (application programm...
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when monolithic architectures are broken down into containers and microservices (or when things are broken down into smaller units, not j...
a16z Podcast: Space -- the Near Frontier
04 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think of space, they think of outer space: Mars, billionaires with rockets, and the “final frontier”. But space innovation is act...
a16z Podcast: The State of Security
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Joel de la Garza, Stina Ehrensvärd, Niels Provos, and Martin Casado Given the heated discussions around security and the c-word (“cyber”), i...
a16z Podcast: Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
24 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The purpose of category creation, argue the guests in ...
a16z Podcast: The Self-Flying Camera
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Adam Bry (@adampbry), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Now that we've finally reached the age of the truly autonomous co...
a16z Podcast: The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
18 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time it was inconceivable that a company in Silicon Valley could make content that was any good; the running joke, shares Marc Andreessen...
a16z Podcast: The Business of Continual Change
18 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every large company -- especially ones that have been around for a long time -- goes through multiple cycles of change. But how do you know where to g...
a16z Podcast: How Technology Is Changing Investing
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As people begin to gain access to information that was previously left to only trained specialists, a new set of asset classes are being created -- an...
a16z Podcast: Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017 The Economist declared data to be the world's most valuable resource. And yet “data insight” is one of those phrases that, while important...
a16z Podcast: The Evolution of Payments
11 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation, oft observe...
a16z Podcast: When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z general p...
a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Lee Kleinman (@LeeForDallas), Joshua Schank (@joshuaschank), Andrew Savage, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) There's a new wave of bike-sharing...
a16z Podcast: Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As cars become more like iPhones and less like just, well, cars — everything changes, from data to mapping to interfaces to security and more. How s...
a16z Podcast: Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this hallway conversation of the a16z Podcast, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky discuss CES 2018 and share insight on what they took from this ye...
a16z Podcast: Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the a16z Podcast goes deep on various trends in cryptocurrencies -- from mental models for understanding tokens and what may give them...
a16z Podcast: Reinventing Food
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's surprising that how (and what) we eat has actually changed very little over the ages, despite how much we’ve advanced as a species. Now, howeve...
a16z Podcast: Revisiting the Gene
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The complete sequencing of the human genome is one of the most powerful examples of technology and science in action: We've gone from needing $3 billi...
a16z Podcast: Community and Culture, Online
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re so used to thinking of “community” as our friends, families, and neighbors. But what a community is, and who it is made of, has changed th...
a16z Podcast: Fintech for the People
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
New fintech companies are democratizing access to financial services in different ways, whether it's making food stamps more efficient, no longer wait...