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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: Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes, even political -- is that we've become too comfortable: matching to others just…
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a16z Podcast: The Future of... You
Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing their performance, whether in sports or health or work. And…
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a16z Podcast: Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Imagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupted by some other streaming-content company that made its DVD rental business…
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a16z Podcast: Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the physical environment around us -- reshaping fields into cities, redirecting rivers to…
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a16z Podcast: When Will Genomics Live Up to the Hype?
It's been nearly 15 years since the Human Genome Project was completed. But "are we there yet" in the golden age of genomics? What did we think we'd have by…
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a16z Podcast: Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn't just the actual pivot. It's the courage to make the decision... and being…
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a16z Podcast: Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow needs. How should we be thinking about securing infrastructure -- and identity --…
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a16z Podcast: Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
Thanks to freeways, cities became something to get through instead of something to get to. Now, as the next transportation revolution -- from rivers to trains…
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a16z Podcast: What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
In the age of the internet -- where information is freely available online, and connections between sellers and buyers of software products are visible on…
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a16z Podcast: Building Worlds with VR, Art, and Narrative
Once upon a time, Robert Stromberg got a phone call from "Jim" Cameron (aka James Francis Cameron of Terminator and Titanic fame) about a little project called…
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a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of PR
"Punch above your weight" -- If there's one thing public relations (PR) should help startups and founders do, it's that. Unfortunately, some companies are…
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a16z Podcast: VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
The building blocks for VR and AR are finally here -- but the content is just beginning. So everything you'll actually experience and consume in these new…
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a16z Podcast: Of Policy, Capital, and the Startup Ecosystem
How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for startups and VC to what…
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a16z Podcast: Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for different tech domains --…
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a16z Podcast: Culture and/of Design
"Mobile-first" (and now too AI-first) has been a mantra of sorts in design, but what does that mean at a company, product management, and competitive level?…
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a16z Podcast: Real Estate -- Ownership, Asset, Economy
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: either own…
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a16z Podcast: Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level artificial intelligence" in playing an imperfect/ asymmetric…
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a16z Podcast: New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto!
What (on earth) does it take to get a signal to Pluto? Stanford senior scientist and astronomer Ivan Linscott, part of the team that ran the radio science…
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a16z Podcast: The Movement of Money
As companies expand out from the internet into the rest of the economy — the proverbial bits to atoms — “the business models are becoming more complicated…
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a16z Podcast: The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
As people live longer, aging is more top of mind than ever. This is especially true for the "sandwich generation" wedged between caring for aging parents as…
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a16z Podcast: Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
"We throw around words like 'crisis' very easily, but this is a global crisis, and it is of historic proportions," says current U.S. Deputy Secretary of State…
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a16z Podcast: Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
Nature is the ultimate complex system, of course — but with today’s technology, it’s now provided us with an “incredible toolkit” of different molecules that…
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a16z Podcast: The Internet Is Your Movement
Clearly disruption plays out not just in business but also in politics. Whether it was the Scottish national party, recent election campaigns, or local school…
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a16z Podcast: Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity
"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. What movie you…
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a16z Podcast: Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and economic progress — not unlike today’s, in fact — where we…
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a16z Podcast: Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “we should have it for our medicine.” So while some people…
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a16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production and…
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a16z Podcast: The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come work for him. Only this time the story turns out great …
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a16z Podcast: What's Next for Technology and National Security?
We live in very interesting times, to say the least -- whether it's a shift in how technology is built and adopted today compared to the past; a changing…
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a16z Podcast: Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business
In business, as in politics, "the movement is the message" -- whether that "movement" is a product that's taking off grassroots-style in an enterprise, or is a…
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a16z Podcast: So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
There have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on the hardware…
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a16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,000 genes…
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a16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have taken over…
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a16z Podcast: Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual reality or…
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a16z Podcast: Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Disney's Queen of Katwe, now in theaters. The movie -- directed…
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a16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing an…
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a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platforms…
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a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires visible in white?…
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a16z Podcast: Sleep!
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is the way to…
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a16z Podcast: All About Microservices
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". So shares…
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a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they're not…
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a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programming…
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a16z Podcast: Pricing Free
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freemium models? While…
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a16z Podcast: Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. But why is this so key and yet so hard for many technical founders? And…
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a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary moves; the…
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a16z Podcast: Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially software…
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a16z Podcast: We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that was technically years in the making, building on a legacy…
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a16z Podcast: Getting Network Effects
One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind many successful and highly defensible software companies) is…
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a16z Podcast: On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an IT builder. Especially for areas where the government is…
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a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World
"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago, and of the…
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a16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an outdated…
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a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups…
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a16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future" for fintech? We're not quite there yet, argued BuzzFeed News…
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a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Stern…
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a16z Podcast: Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at its most recent annual developer's conference (WWDC) -- that…
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a16z Podcast: Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
The mindset of "move fast and break things", while great for code, isn't exactly great for the human body. So adding computation to biology -- especially in…
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a16z Podcast: Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and compounding in unexpected ways. But just because we don't…
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Politics Over Pragmatism
"Anybody who is interested in China, who's developing things in China, who's doing business with China needs to be thinking about the instinct towards politics…
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a16z Podcast: Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
Everything old is new again when it comes to startup ideas and how technology innovation happens. But practically, how does that apply to starting and/or…
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a16z Podcast: Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
"We really want Apple here... Would you please call Tim Cook?" That's just one of the things Penny Pritzker, the 38th Secretary of Commerce has heard as she…