a16z Podcast: Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
13 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For as long as there has been software we have had this collective hope -- maybe more of a desire --...
a16z Podcast: Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
08 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from...
a16z Podcast: Making the Most of the Data That Matters
07 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Every organization these days is clear about the need to get its data act together. But that doesn’...
a16z Podcast: What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
06 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The old constraint when it came to technology was hardware -- how many CPUs can I get my hands on. T...
a16z Podcast: The Future of Software Development
05 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As software becomes core to every industry, there is a need for more and more software development a...
a16z Podcast: Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Milk calls virtual reality the “ultimate empathy machine.” The filmmaker and founder of VR...
a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You know how talented Andre Iguodala is as a basketball player. You may not know that he signed with...
a16z Podcast: Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, sits down with Ben Horowitz during a16z's 2015 Tech ...
a16z Podcast: The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Benedict Evans highlights the past year in mobile. From Apple's ongoing rule of the high-end, to And...
a16z Podcast: The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our virtual reality-enabled future is arriving, but it’s hard to know -- as it is with every new t...
a16z Podcast: The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
12 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
India and China. The two most populous countries on the planet are also two of the most tantalizing ...
a16z Podcast: Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our final segment from the road in the U.K. features two well-known investors and entrepreneurs in t...
a16z Podcast: Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could bring the best version of yourself to everything you do everyday? What if you coul...
a16z Podcast: Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
01 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The pod continues its U.K. road trip, meeting up with three startup founders -- including one startu...
a16z Podcast: Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
28 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Brett Hagler was on a trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake where he saw too many of those displac...
a16z Podcast: The Data Science of Food and Taste
25 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The best cooks know cooking a meal is all about having a plan (and a back-up plan if things go south...
a16z Podcast: Data Down on the Farm
24 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Farmers are among the best hackers in the business. They can fix anything, and are endlessly tweakin...
a16z Podcast: The Future of Food
24 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Rhinehart, like most startup entrepreneurs, was strapped for cash and time as developed his idea...
a16z Podcast: On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations
21 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's hip to be Square right now. Or is it? How do we assess whether it -- and other recent IPOs -- w...
a16z Podcast: London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If the U.K. is to continue its economic march onward and upward, technology needs to play an increas...
a16z Podcast: Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There are those who would say that Aubrey de Grey is out to cure death, but what this former artific...
a16z Podcast: Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The title of world's financial capital bounces back and forth between London and New York. This year...
a16z Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
15 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What is A.I. or artificial intelligence but the 'space of possible minds', argues Murray Shanahan, s...
a16z Podcast: Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
11 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain without bitcoin? It's a debate as old as the cryptocurrency itself (which, to be honest, ...
a16z Podcast: Beyond Lean Startups
07 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What began as a scientific approach to creating and managing startups has now become a worldwide mov...
a16z Podcast: A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There's a "game" being played right now among lawmakers and tech companies around policy i...
a16z Podcast: Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Telepresence. It's an ugly, outdated word for an attractive and current/ emerging phenomenon where p...
a16z Podcast: 'The Most Boring Yet Valuable' 20 Minutes, All About Board Minutes
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"The most boring yet valuable podcast in a16z history" -- he (our guest Joe Grundfest) sai...
a16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks
29 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and in...
a16z Podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
24 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Ox...
a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In ...
a16z Podcast: Belief -- An Interview with Oprah Winfrey
16 Oct 2015
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: Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would ...
a16z Podcast: AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
14 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open sour...
a16z Podcast: The Role of Academia in the Startup World
13 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge cata...
a16z Podcast: How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
09 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is a stream of the world's largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. ...
a16z Podcast: Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
06 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mention Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, and you’ll elicit a strong opinion. I...
a16z Podcast: A Podcast about Podcasts
04 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Podcasts and podcasting have been around a while, but seem to be going through a renaissance of sort...
a16z Podcast: Money, Risk, and Software
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Financial services are overdue for an overhaul. With a16z's newest general partner, Alex Rampell (wh...
a16z Podcast: Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Apple included support for ad blocking in its recent iOS 9 update, and for many that prompted discus...
a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical adv...
a16z Podcast: Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
17 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The internet as it has evolved in the United States is perhaps the best example of “permissionless...
a16z Podcast: The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary investor Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's financial partner and vice chairman of Berkshire...
a16z Podcast: Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
10 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Apple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other compan...
a16z Podcast: Code and Culture in South Central Los Angeles
07 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recover...
a16z Podcast: Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
05 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science...
a16z Podcast: Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
02 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple mon...
a16z Podcast: Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
31 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in...
a16z Podcast: Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime New York Times technology and science writer John Markoff joins the a16z Podcast to discuss...
a16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to Everything
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer...
a16z Podcast: When Software Eats Cars
25 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make ...
a16z Podcast: Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
20 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, ...
a16z Podcast: The Internet is His Religion
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about ge...
a16z Podcast: Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever ...
a16z Podcast: Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz)
15 Aug 2015
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: Getting That First Board Seat
13 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actu...
a16z Podcast: Is It Possible to Achieve Equitable Equity for Startup Employees?
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by ...
a16z Podcast: Compensation Isn’t About Paying the Most, It’s About Being Consistent
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best peopl...
a16z Podcast: Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal...
a16z Podcast: A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
05 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to he...
a16z Podcast: How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
01 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography ...
a16z Podcast: These Girls Code
30 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing...
a16z Podcast: Why Every Business is in the Data Business
28 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus ...
a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science
26 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave o...
a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big
24 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to som...
a16z Podcast: Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
22 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and...
a16z Podcast: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
16 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data --...
a16z Podcast: Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin has had more than its share of drama. There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anony...
a16z Podcast: The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few years ago if you were mayor of Washington D.C. –- or any other city -- you didn’t hav...
a16z Podcast: Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is a gap between the technology industry and the fastest growing portion of today’s workforc...
a16z Podcast: Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
01 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Mohsen Malayeri, co-founder of Avatech --...
a16z Podcast: Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
30 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Nazanin Daneshvar, co-founder and CEO of ...
a16z Podcast: A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
24 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most active and fastest growing open source big data cluster computing projects is Apache...
a16z Podcast: Investing in Communities
22 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Investing to make a return both financial AND societal isn't new, but the opportunities to reach and...
a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
17 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"This time is different." But it's always different! So what's going on now in the public ...
a16z Podcast: Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
11 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Pick your metaphor: Smartphones are "remote controls" for the physical world, or perhaps, ...
a16z Podcast: Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable ...
a16z Podcast: Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans...
a16z Podcast: Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16...
The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data&quo...
a16z Podcast: Tech Trends Changing Gaming
04 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
with Justin Bailey (@justinbailey12d), Herman Narula (@hermannarula), Tim Schafer (@timoflegend) and...
a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
30 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans...
a16z Podcast: The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s one business on planet earth that makes Silicon Valley look sober and level-headed it’...
a16z Podcast: Finding and Hiring for (Expectations) Fit on Both Sides
22 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Fit" is this squishy idea that a person, role, and company are a perfect match. But how d...
a16z Podcast: Hiring is Hard -- Here’s How to Do it Right
21 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
LinkedIn may seem like a gift both for job seekers and hirers, but it's not enough. When (and how) s...
a16z Podcast: Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Users, entrepreneurs, and investors are harnessing bitcoin’s "workaday utility" in Argen...
a16z Podcast: Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
16 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Andreessen Horowitz Managing Partner Scott Kupor and NetSuite CFO Ron Gill get into the weeds on Saa...
a16z Podcast: Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
12 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The battle of the pipes has shifted to mobile. Verizon caught plenty of people by surprise when it a...
a16z Podcast: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
11 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under unce...
a16z Podcast: Making Security More Useable
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails ...
a16z Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
07 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agilit...
a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
01 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christophe...
a16z Podcast: Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
30 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, th...
a16z Podcast: Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
29 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The paradox of security is we pretty much know what we are supposed to do most of the time -- but ...
a16z Podcast: Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
25 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley and the U.S. Department of Defense have had a long history of partnership -- includin...
a16z Podcast: How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When (now) two-year-old startup Zenefits was banned in Utah because it offered its HR management sof...
a16z Podcast: The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
23 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin has not been easy for Wall Street and other traditional financial centers to wrap their coll...
a16z Podcast: How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
18 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like we hear about corporate (not to mention consumer) hacks in the news every week. Is thi...
a16z Podcast: Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology
10 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It is something we all face -- the prospect of taking care of a parent (or two) when they can't quit...
a16z Podcast: Messaging is the Medium
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The potential to turn messaging into a platform is driving much of the excitement in mobile, says a1...