a16z Podcast: The Genetics Of Drug Delivery
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a presentation at our summit...
a16z Podcast: Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes, even political -- is ...
a16z Podcast: The Future of... You
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing t...
a16z Podcast: Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupted by some other stream...
a16z Podcast: Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the physical environment aroun...
a16z Podcast: When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's been nearly 15 years since the Human Genome Project was completed. But "are we there yet&q...
a16z Podcast: Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
19 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual piv...
a16z Podcast: Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow needs. How should we be...
a16z Podcast: Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to freeways, cities became something to get through instead of something to get to. Now, as t...
a16z Podcast: What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of the internet -- where information is freely available online, and connections between ...
a16z Podcast: Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, Robert Stromberg got a phone call from "Jim" Cameron (aka James Francis ...
a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of PR
26 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Punch above your weight" -- If there's one thing public relations (PR) should help startu...
a16z Podcast: VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The building blocks for VR and AR are finally here -- but the content is just beginning. So everythi...
a16z Podcast: Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
21 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new preside...
a16z Podcast: Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
21 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? ...
a16z Podcast: Culture and/of Design
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Mobile-first" (and now too AI-first) has been a mantra of sorts in design, but what does ...
a16z Podcast: Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy
13 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowne...
a16z Podcast: Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level art...
a16z Podcast: New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
01 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What (on earth) does it take to get a signal to Pluto? Stanford senior scientist and astronomer Ivan...
a16z Podcast: The Movement of Money
31 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As companies expand out from the internet into the rest of the economy — the proverbial bits to at...
a16z Podcast: The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
27 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As people live longer, aging is more top of mind than ever. This is especially true for the "sa...
a16z Podcast: Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
16 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"We throw around words like 'crisis' very easily, but this is a global crisis, and it is of his...
a16z Podcast: Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provi...
a16z Podcast: The Internet Is Your Movement
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Clearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whether it was the Scottish ...
a16z Podcast: Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to clic...
a16z Podcast: Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
27 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and ...
a16z Podcast: Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “...
a16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 b...
a16z Podcast: The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come...
a16z Podcast: What's Next for Technology and National Security?
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We live in very interesting times, to say the least -- whether it's a shift in how technology is bui...
a16z Podcast: Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In business, as in politics, "the movement is the message" -- whether that "movement&...
a16z Podcast: So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
29 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel ph...
a16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- ...
a16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
12 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other...
a16z Podcast: Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us clos...
a16z Podcast: Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of ...
a16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
22 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of e...
a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
18 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what...
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing s...
a16z Podcast: Sleep!
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we ar...
a16z Podcast: All About Microservices
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to ...
a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
30 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or ...
a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when...
a16z Podcast: Pricing Free
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pr...
a16z Podcast: Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
14 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. Bu...
a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through ...
a16z Podcast: Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
01 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a na...
a16z Podcast: We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
22 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that...
a16z Podcast: Getting Network Effects
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind m...
a16z Podcast: On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an ...
a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World
11 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eatin...
a16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree t...
a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
28 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Who has the advant...
a16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
22 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless futu...
a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig e...
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at it...
a16z Podcast: Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The mindset of "move fast and break things", while great for code, isn't exactly great for...
a16z Podcast: Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and co...
Politics Over Pragmatism
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Anybody who is interested in China, who's developing things in China, who's doing business wit...
a16z Podcast: Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
30 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everything old is new again when it comes to startup ideas and how technology innovation happens. Bu...
a16z Podcast: Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"We really want Apple here... Would you please call Tim Cook?" That's just one of the thin...
a16z Podcast: Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
26 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In many ways, managing startups is about managing uncertainty: in product, market, and... people. So...
a16z Podcast: Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
23 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There's no question automation is taking over more and more aspects of work and some jobs altogether...
a16z Podcast: Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation or invention? Platform or app? Vertical or horizontal? Strategy or tactic? Does the smart...
a16z Podcast: Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
18 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- includi...
a16z Podcast: The Cloud and The Public Sector
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It almost seems like gospel -- or at least a given -- today for startups to embrace the cloud. Servi...
a16z Podcast: The Art of the Regulatory Hack
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problem...
a16z Podcast: On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and make...
a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “insti...
a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, o...
a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterp...
a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions: It’s just a b...
a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital ...
a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond
19 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots! In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict...
a16z Podcast: Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
14 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Developers are more than just influencers inside the enterprise -- they're now buyers, too. That's a...
a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of Sales
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The hallmark of many great technical founder/CEOs is that they envision a better way of doing things...
a16z Podcast: Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
02 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the best management books are actually military books, argues Ben Horowitz. There's just a c...
a16z Podcast: Investing in (Business and Career) Change
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Most investors try to invest in things that don't change and last forever -- Warren Buffett for exam...
a16z Podcast: Scaling Companies and Culture
17 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the a16z Podcast sharing more founder stories, Ben Horowitz interviews a16z partn...
a16z Podcast: Truth and Humanity in Leadership
16 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get into tech when you don’t have a tech background? And what special expertise can lea...
a16z Podcast: The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why are people so fired up about a computer winning yet another game? Whether it's checkers, chess, ...
a16z Podcast: Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that ...
a16z Podcast: I Reject the Term Viral Video
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube star Casey Neistat rejects the term “viral video,” which is strange because he’s had m...
a16z Podcast: Data Network Effects
08 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that m...
a16z Podcast: Disruption in Business... and Life
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big co...
a16z Podcast: Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The mobile world has fallen hard for VR, says Benedict Evans. But will virtual reality mean real pro...
a16z Podcast: Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual reality is coming fast, and everyone seems to assume that it will be gamers who get to have ...
a16z Podcast: Infrastructure... Is Everything
24 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered "bor...
a16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
19 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The principal political binary of the past century was the political 'left versus right'. But in the...
a16z Podcast: 'In the Eye of a Tornado' -- Views on Innovation from China
18 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how one views Xiaomi -- and there are many ways to view it, for better or worse -- one thi...
a16z Podcast: Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
06 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
During his “Stratos” jump Felix Baumgartner fell faster than the speed of sound, reaching an est...
a16z Podcast: Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The NFL has descended upon Silicon Valley for Superbowl 50, and a16z was fortunate to have 30 of the...
a16z Podcast: Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Max Levchin helped build PayPal. Then he went onto tackle gaming at Slide. Now he’s back in the wo...
a16z Podcast: The Future of Money and Monetization
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business -- fr...
a16z Podcast: How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
02 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- su...
a16z Podcast: Reinventing Insurance
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Your homeowner’s insurance didn’t anticipate Airbnb. Your car insurance certainly didn’t see L...
a16z Podcast: When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are fewer and fewer parts of our lives that don't feel like an extension of our smartphones. A...
a16z Podcast: Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
25 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We often hear stats like “more people have mobile phones than toilets” about places like Africa,...
a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
20 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thrille...
a16z Podcast: Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, ...