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The a16z Show
The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
Episodes
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a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product
Hiring a VP of Product -- especially as the founder of the company -- can almost feel like handing over your baby to someone else to hold, observes a16z…
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a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
with Brandon Ballinger (@bballinger), Mintu Turakhia (@leftbundle), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) There’s been a lot of talk…
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a16z Podcast: The Why Behind the Weird
Author and professor at George Mason University, Peter Leeson describes himself as not just an economist but as a "collector of curiosa." In his latest book…
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a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
with Frank Chen, Steven Sinofsky, and Sonal Chokshi There are many reasons why we’re in an “A.I. spring” after multiple “A.I. winters” — but how then do we…
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a16z Podcast: Platforming the Future
with Tim O'Reilly and Benedict Evans In this hallway-style podcast conversation, O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly and a16z partner Benedict Evans discuss…
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a16z Podcast: A New Lab Rises
with Ion Stoica, Peter Levine, and Sonal Chokshi We’ve already talked quite a bit about the Algorithms, Machines, and People lab at U.C. Berkeley (AMPLab) —…
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a16z Podcast: Mindsets for Engineering Biology
Head of the largest bioengineering lab in the world, former chairman of the FDA and one of the few recipients of the National Medals of Science and of…
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a16z Podcast: Why Crypto Tokens Matter
with Chris Dixon and Fred Ehrsam We’ve already talked about why bitcoin matters. But as the set of cryptocurrencies — and networks and “tokens” enabled by the…
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a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments
with David Mack, Joseph Okpaku, and Matt Spence How should startups engage with policymakers, build their own government relations (GR) function (whether in…
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a16z Podcast: Exploding the Map
with Wei Luo, David Rumsey (@davidrumseymaps), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) In this episode, Wei Luo, founding COO of DeepMap -- who build HD maps for…
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a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People's Hands
with Juan Benet and Chris Dixon The story of how innovation happens is a long one — from government funding early basic research, to the heyday of corporate…
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a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide
with Michael Dearing (@mcgd), Bob Sutton (@work_matters), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Bob Sutton's book The No Asshole Rule was all about how to foster…
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a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade... and Innovation
with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Sonal Chokshi Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the…
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a16z Podcast: The Macro and Micro of Parenting
We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts -- screen time, to code or not to code -- but actually, there's a bigger, macro picture…
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a16z Podcast: Competing Against Luck
with Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Steven Levy In business, mistakes of omission may be just as bad as (if not worse than) mistakes of commission…
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a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent
"Young hungry and scrappy" is how Hamilton described his country, and it's how many -- including the guests on this episode -- describe startups... or more…
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a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually meant the transportation systems supporting roadways, airports, trains... but we…
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a16z Podcast: Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤️ CFO
with Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Caroline Moon “The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash” [so said Harold Geneen], yet startup CEOs…
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a16z Podcast: The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
What do disease diagnostics, language learning, and image recognition have in common? All depend on the organization of collective intelligence: data…
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a16z Podcast: Centers of Power, War, and History
with Graham Allison and Matthew Colford "When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, shit happens." It's true of people, it's true of companies…
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a16z Podcast: The Strategies and Tactics of Big
What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to their organization, their product planning, their behavior towards change…
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a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board
with Anne Mitchell, Lars Dalgaard, and Scott Kupor "Orthogonal thinking" but "shared core values" -- that's what makes an ideal board... especially when it…
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a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky Modern technology owes much to the introduction of the binary digit or "bit", first proposed by Claude…
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a16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the who (the bankers, the desired institutional investors); the what (the pricing, the…
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a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists trying to resurrect (or rather, "rewild") an Ice Age (aka Pleistocene era) biome…
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a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does popularity -- or good product design, for that matter -- cross over from desire and…
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a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes of economics/historian/journalist Marc Levinson's books -- from An Extraordinary…
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a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shifts in classic computing before it, it begins -- not ends -- with The Cloud…
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a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds
Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon? Not yet, argue Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in the…
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a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech
What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" and making arrangements in "smoke-filled back rooms”? It's not like that anymore…
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a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
"We're always fighting the last war" -- that's a phrase historians like to use because policymakers and others tend to be so focused on the threats they…
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a16z Podcast: Taking the ‘Cyber’ Out of Cybersecurity
Nearly every cybersecurity discussion/presentation follows this formula: We don’t know what we’re doing; the bad guys are getting smarter; our defenses are…
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a16z Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
When individuals gain the abilities that only nation states once had, how do we put cyber threats in perspective for policymakers -- without unduly "inflating"…
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a16z Podcast: Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
"Slow down, cowboys" -- that's what Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) said when prosecutors in her office wanted to bring a case against companies that let…
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a16z Podcast: Modernizing Government Services, From Food Stamps to Foster Care
When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of improved procurement, of new infrastructure ... rather than social services like…
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a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’s legal and what isn’t is far more complex when it comes to…
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a16z Podcast: The Living Museum
Every industry (for-profit, non-profit, government, private-sector) has been touched by tech, with most trying to lead the charge in order to stay ahead. But…
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a16z Podcast: Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees
There's feedback and there's guidance; there's praise and there's criticism. All of it is important to do better work, but to develop a better and more…
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a16z Podcast: What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
Turnabout is fair play: That's true in politics, and it's true at Andreessen Horowitz given our internal (and very opinionated!) culture of debate -- where we…
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a16z Podcast: Tech Policy and the Courts
Discussions and headlines around tech policy tend to be dominated by what the President and the White House (aka the executive branch of the government) and…
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a16z Podcast: The Blockchain, in Congress
There’s an interesting paradox when it comes to the U.S. government and tech: Either they’re an inventor, early adopter, and buyer of emerging new tech … or…
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a16z Podcast: For Your Ears Only
When it comes to spycraft — or rather, “tradecraft,” as they say in the biz — what do the movies get right, and what do they get wrong? In this episode of the…
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a16z Podcast: From Jobs to Flying Cars
In this lively conversation -- from our recent annual tech and policy summit in Washington, D.C. -- Axios' Dan Primack interviews a16z co-founder Marc…
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a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next
Moore's Law -- putting more and more transistors on a chip -- accelerated the computing industry by so many orders of magnitude, it has (and continues to)…
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a16z Podcast: Boards, from Both Sides of the Table
A board veteran who has sat on both sides of the table, CEO of PagerDuty Jennifer Tejada shares what you gain from board membership (vs. being only an…
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a16z Podcast: On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
It’s the end of the beginning — not the beginning of the end — for wearables, argue the guests in this episode of the a16z Podcast. Especially as we move from…
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a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Digital 'Pill'
The first thing that comes to mind when treating health problems is the need to take a pill (or other pharmaceutical) of some kind. But could a digital…
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a16z Podcast: QR. AR. VR.
In this hallway-style episode of the podcast, a16z partners Connie Chan and Kyle Russell discuss recent announcements at Facebook's annual developer…
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a16z Podcast: The Science Of Extending Life
Is it real or science fiction to dream of being able to treat… getting old? In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Thomas Rando from Stanford (who directs the…
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a16z Podcast: Crisis Communications
A crisis is an opportunity to change one's culture, to model scenarios and set up a crisis plan/process, to become a better company. But it's also a bit like…
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a16z Podcast: Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
Here’s what we know about open source: Developers are the new buyers. Community matters. And there will never be another Red Hat (i.e., a successful “open…
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a16z Podcast: The Changing Culture of Open Source
The culture of open source has changed across generations, from previous ones that had to fight for the brave new way -- to the current "GitHub generation"…
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a16z Podcast: Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
Most of us have probably heard of bitcoin and ethereum -- but did you know there were 15 new cryptocurrencies launched this past month alone? How then do we…
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a16z Podcast: Eyes in the Sky
In this episode of the a16z Podcast recorded at our inaugural Summit, Jonathan Downey, CEO of Airware, Grant Jordan, CEO of Skysafe, and Kyle Russell, partner…
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a16z Podcast: From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Darden is one of the mathematicians that the book and movie Hidden Figures was based…
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a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance
As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important. It might…
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a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), those…
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a16z Podcast: Build Your Personal Brand
Your brand, says head of a16z marketing and Outcast Agency co-founder Margit Wennmachers, is what people say about you when you're not in the room. And it's…
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a16z Podcast: The Business of Healthcare
Starbucks supposedly spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. And 20 years ago, says Rajeev Singh, CEO of Accolade, healthcare was 10% of GDP…
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a16z Podcast: The Genetics Of Drug Delivery
In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a presentation at our summit event), Russ Altman, Stanford professor of bioengineering…