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 Ramp...
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...
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 a...
a16z Podcast: Breaking Into Bio
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Atul Butte (@atulbutte), Daphne Koller (@daphnekoller), and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) Whether y...
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 appl...
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 H...
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 pro...
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 hav...
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...
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 cl...
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 perspecti...
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 ...
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 sometim...
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 ...
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...
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 whe...
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...
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 discussio...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 multipl...
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, ...
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 insigh...
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 ...
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? Bi...
a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
with Lee Kleinman (@LeeForDallas), Joshua Schank (@joshuaschank), Andrew Savage, and Hanne Tidnam (@...
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...
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 201...
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 mode...
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 h...
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 s...
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 c...
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...
a16z Podcast: Trends in Cryptocurrencies
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The internet, believe it or not, was just the beginning. Yes, it spawned an incredible number of use...
a16z Podcast: The $200 PC in the Enterprise
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What capabilities do enterprise companies really want from their computers? Twenty years ago, those ...
a16z Podcast: Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the big tech policy issues of the day play out more so at the state and local level, not jus...
a16z Podcast: Taking the Pulse on Bio
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation between the members of a16z's bio team -- including general partners Jorge Conde a...
a16z Podcast: Scaling Healthcare
13 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how grand a vision for a particular industry, disruption in practice is hard. This is espe...
a16z Podcast: Market Shifts
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world's largest financial services companies, including th...
a16z Podcast: On Data and Data Scientists in the Age of AI
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Data, data, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Or so would say Coleridge, if he were a big company C...
a16z Podcast: AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When you have “a really hot, frothy space” like AI, even the most basic questions — like what ...
a16z Podcast: The Rise of the CCO
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's a new C-level role in town: the CCO, or Chief Customer Officer. This episode (based on a pre...
a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hiring a VP of Product -- especially as the founder of the company -- can almost feel like handing o...
a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Brandon Ballinger (@bballinger), Mintu Turakhia (@leftbundle), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and ...
a16z Podcast: The Why Behind the Weird
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Author and professor at George Mason University, Peter Leeson describes himself as not just an econo...
a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Frank Chen, Steven Sinofsky, and Sonal Chokshi There are many reasons why we’re in an “A.I....
a16z Podcast: Platforming the Future
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Tim O'Reilly and Benedict Evans In this hallway-style podcast conversation, O'Reilly Media foun...
a16z Podcast: A New Lab Rises
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Ion Stoica, Peter Levine, and Sonal Chokshi We’ve already talked quite a bit about the Algori...
a16z Podcast: Mindsets for Engineering Biology
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Head of the largest bioengineering lab in the world, former chairman of the FDA and one of the few ...
a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matters. But as the set of...
a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with David Mack, Joseph Okpaku, and Matt Spence How should startups engage with policymakers, build ...
a16z Podcast: Exploding the Map
16 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Wei Luo, David Rumsey (@davidrumseymaps), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) In this episode, W...
a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People's Hands
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Juan Benet and Chris Dixon The story of how innovation happens is a long one — from governmen...
a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Michael Dearing (@mcgd), Bob Sutton (@work_matters), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Bob Sut...
a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
10 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Sonal Chokshi Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “...
a16z Podcast: The Macro and Micro of Parenting
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts -- screen time, to code or no...
a16z Podcast: Competing Against Luck
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Steven Levy In business, mistakes of omission may be ...
a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Young hungry and scrappy" is how Hamilton described his country, and it's how many -- inc...
a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually meant the tr...
a16z Podcast: Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤️ CFO
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Caroline Moon “The only unforgivable sin in business is to run...
a16z Podcast: The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What do disease diagnostics, language learning, and image recognition have in common? All depend on ...
a16z Podcast: Centers of Power, War, and History
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Graham Allison and Matthew Colford "When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling pow...
a16z Podcast: The Strategies and Tactics of Big
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to their organization, t...
a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Anne Mitchell, Lars Dalgaard, and Scott Kupor"Orthogonal thinking" but "shared core values" -- ...
a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky Modern technology owes much to the introduction of...
a16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the who (the bankers, the de...
a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists trying to resurrect (...
a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
15 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does popularity -- or good pr...
a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes of economics/historian/...
a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shifts in classic computi...
a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon...
a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech
24 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" a...
a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"We're always fighting the last war" -- that's a phrase historians like to use because pol...
a16z Podcast: Taking the ‘Cyber’ Out of Cybersecurity
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly every cybersecurity discussion/presentation follows this formula: We don’t know what we’r...
a16z Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When individuals gain the abilities that only nation states once had, how do we put cyber threats in...
a16z Podcast: Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
09 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Slow down, cowboys" -- that's what Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) said when prosecu...
a16z Podcast: Modernizing Government Services, From Food Stamps to Foster Care
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of improved procurement, ...
a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
04 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’...
a16z Podcast: The Living Museum
29 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every industry (for-profit, non-profit, government, private-sector) has been touched by tech, with m...
a16z Podcast: Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's feedback and there's guidance; there's praise and there's criticism. All of it is important ...
a16z Podcast: What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
23 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Turnabout is fair play: That's true in politics, and it's true at Andreessen Horowitz given our inte...
a16z Podcast: Tech Policy and the Courts
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Discussions and headlines around tech policy tend to be dominated by what the President and the Whit...
a16z Podcast: The Blockchain, in Congress
20 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an interesting paradox when it comes to the U.S. government and tech: Either they’re an ...
a16z Podcast: For Your Ears Only
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to spycraft — or rather, “tradecraft,” as they say in the biz — what do the mo...
a16z Podcast: From Jobs to Flying Cars
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this lively conversation -- from our recent annual tech and policy summit in Washington, D.C. -- ...
a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next
13 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the computing industry by ...
a16z Podcast: Boards, from Both Sides of the Table
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A board veteran who has sat on both sides of the table, CEO of PagerDuty Jennifer Tejada shares what...
a16z Podcast: On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the end of the beginning — not the beginning of the end — for wearables, argue the guests...
a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The first thing that comes to mind when treating health problems is the need to take a pill (or othe...
a16z Podcast: QR. AR. VR.
25 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this hallway-style episode of the podcast, a16z partners Connie Chan and Kyle Russell discuss rec...
a16z Podcast: The Science Of Extending Life
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is it real or science fiction to dream of being able to treat… getting old? In this episode, we di...
a16z Podcast: Crisis Communications
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A crisis is an opportunity to change one's culture, to model scenarios and set up a crisis plan/proc...
a16z Podcast: Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s what we know about open source: Developers are the new buyers. Community matters. And there...
a16z Podcast: The Changing Culture of Open Source
08 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The culture of open source has changed across generations, from previous ones that had to fight for ...
a16z Podcast: Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have probably heard of bitcoin and ethereum -- but did you know there were 15 new cryptoc...
a16z Podcast: Eyes in the Sky
25 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the a16z Podcast recorded at our inaugural Summit, Jonathan Downey, CEO of Airwar...
a16z Podcast: From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
22 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Darden is one of the math...
a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep l...
a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing ...