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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: Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
In many ways, managing startups is about managing uncertainty: in product, market, and... people. So what happens when changes in the business require changes…
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a16z Podcast: Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
There's no question automation is taking over more and more aspects of work and some jobs altogether. But we're now entering a "third era" of automation, one…
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a16z Podcast: Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
Innovation or invention? Platform or app? Vertical or horizontal? Strategy or tactic? Does the smartphone eat VR? And (not to get all existential about it or…
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a16z Podcast: Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
One of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- including companies, developers, engineers, hobbyists, and yes…
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a16z Podcast: The Cloud and The Public Sector
It almost seems like gospel -- or at least a given -- today for startups to embrace the cloud. Services like AWS have powered an entire generation of startups…
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a16z Podcast: The Art of the Regulatory Hack
If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problems -- like health, energy, transportation, cities…
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a16z Podcast: On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and makes perfect sense in hindsight. This was especially true for…
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a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and build new…
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a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development platform, cryptocurrency…
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a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterparts, which makes it easier to figure out how to present…
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a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions: It’s just a big iPhone I’ll never carry a laptop again Both were wrong. The…
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a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But the…
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a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond
So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots! In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict Evans and Connie Chan -- along with Chris Messina…
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a16z Podcast: Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
Developers are more than just influencers inside the enterprise -- they're now buyers, too. That's a huge shift from before, when only IT and other departments…
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a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of Sales
The hallmark of many great technical founder/CEOs is that they envision a better way of doing things, and that's why they're building a company that delivers…
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a16z Podcast: Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
Some of the best management books are actually military books, argues Ben Horowitz. There's just a certain mental toughness and focus that that experience…
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a16z Podcast: Investing in (Business and Career) Change
Most investors try to invest in things that don't change and last forever -- Warren Buffett for example loves Heinz ketchup! But VC is about investing in…
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a16z Podcast: Scaling Companies and Culture
In this episode of the a16z Podcast sharing more founder stories, Ben Horowitz interviews a16z partner Lars Dalgaard about SuccessFactors, one of the earlier…
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a16z Podcast: Truth and Humanity in Leadership
How do you get into tech when you don’t have a tech background? And what special expertise can leaders from other fields -- like the military -- bring to tech…
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a16z Podcast: The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Why are people so fired up about a computer winning yet another game? Whether it's checkers, chess, Jeopardy, or the ancient Chinese game of Go, we get excited…
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a16z Podcast: Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those…
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a16z Podcast: I Reject the Term Viral Video
YouTube star Casey Neistat rejects the term “viral video,” which is strange because he’s had more than his share of internet monsters. To say I want to make a…
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a16z Podcast: Data Network Effects
If network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that may be especially true of data network effects -- a network…
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a16z Podcast: Disruption in Business... and Life
It's not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too. Or so argue…
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a16z Podcast: Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
The mobile world has fallen hard for VR, says Benedict Evans. But will virtual reality mean real profit for hardware makers? Evans offers his observations on…
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a16z Podcast: Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is coming fast, and everyone seems to assume that it will be gamers who get to have all the fun first. But there are other applications for VR…
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a16z Podcast: Infrastructure... Is Everything
Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered "boring" because it is so invisible to so many of us. But as…
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a16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
The principal political binary of the past century was the political 'left versus right'. But in the 21st century the binary has shifted -- the battleground…
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a16z Podcast: 'In the Eye of a Tornado' -- Views on Innovation from China
No matter how one views Xiaomi -- and there are many ways to view it, for better or worse -- one thing is clear: It, and other such companies (like WeChat and…
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a16z Podcast: Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
During his “Stratos” jump Felix Baumgartner fell faster than the speed of sound, reaching an estimated speed of 833.9 mph plummeting from the edge of space…
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a16z Podcast: Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
The NFL has descended upon Silicon Valley for Superbowl 50, and a16z was fortunate to have 30 of the world’s best football players post-up at the firm to talk…
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a16z Podcast: Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
Max Levchin helped build PayPal. Then he went onto tackle gaming at Slide. Now he’s back in the world of payments and finance with his latest startup Affirm…
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a16z Podcast: The Future of Money and Monetization
Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business -- from raising funds to moving money from one person to…
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a16z Podcast: How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- such as entrepreneurs -- do a lot of different things to move the world…
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a16z Podcast: Reinventing Insurance
Your homeowner’s insurance didn’t anticipate Airbnb. Your car insurance certainly didn’t see Lyft and Uber coming. And when your car drives itself, it’s…
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a16z Podcast: When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
There are fewer and fewer parts of our lives that don't feel like an extension of our smartphones. Any song you might want to hear. Any place you might want to…
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a16z Podcast: Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
We often hear stats like “more people have mobile phones than toilets” about places like Africa, but what does that actually mean for people? “It is b.s.,” (no…
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a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thriller. Nation states are after your company’s most valuable…
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a16z Podcast: Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, sensors, and batteries all get mixed and matched in…
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a16z Podcast: Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
For as long as there has been software we have had this collective hope -- maybe more of a desire -- that software will make all kinds of work easier, more…
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a16z Podcast: Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from an episodic event to an almost continuous release cycle…
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a16z Podcast: Making the Most of the Data That Matters
Every organization these days is clear about the need to get its data act together. But that doesn’t mean the path toward data bliss is clear. Data has…
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a16z Podcast: What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
The old constraint when it came to technology was hardware -- how many CPUs can I get my hands on. Today, spinning up compute can be done from any smartphone…
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a16z Podcast: The Future of Software Development
As software becomes core to every industry, there is a need for more and more software development across practically every department in a company. But as…
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a16z Podcast: Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
Chris Milk calls virtual reality the “ultimate empathy machine.” The filmmaker and founder of VR shop Vrse talks with a16z’s Chris Dixon about how virtual…
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a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
You know how talented Andre Iguodala is as a basketball player. You may not know that he signed with the Warriors in part to be near Silicon Valley and the…
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a16z Podcast: Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, sits down with Ben Horowitz during a16z's 2015 Tech Summit for a wide ranging conversation on investing, the…
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a16z Podcast: The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
Benedict Evans highlights the past year in mobile. From Apple's ongoing rule of the high-end, to Android's spread farther down the price curve. Without a clear…
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a16z Podcast: The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
Our virtual reality-enabled future is arriving, but it’s hard to know -- as it is with every new technology platform -- how quickly we’ll all make the…
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a16z Podcast: The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
India and China. The two most populous countries on the planet are also two of the most tantalizing markets for companies of all size, from startups to…
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a16z Podcast: Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Our final segment from the road in the U.K. features two well-known investors and entrepreneurs in the London tech world: Seedcamp co-founder Reshma Sahoni and…
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a16z Podcast: Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
What if you could bring the best version of yourself to everything you do everyday? What if you could get the most out of your mind and brain -- or more…
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a16z Podcast: Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
The pod continues its U.K. road trip, meeting up with three startup founders -- including one startup accelerator programme -- to discuss the entrepreneurial…
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a16z Podcast: Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need
Brett Hagler was on a trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake where he saw too many of those displaced by the natural disaster still living in tattered…
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a16z Podcast: The Data Science of Food and Taste
The best cooks know cooking a meal is all about having a plan (and a back-up plan if things go south); get the cooking out of the way, and then you can enjoy…
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a16z Podcast: Data Down on the Farm
Farmers are among the best hackers in the business. They can fix anything, and are endlessly tweaking their approach to a business that is up against the…
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a16z Podcast: The Future of Food
Rob Rhinehart, like most startup entrepreneurs, was strapped for cash and time as developed his ideas and ultimately a company. What stood out to Rhinehart in…
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a16z Podcast: On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations
It's hip to be Square right now. Or is it? How do we assess whether it -- and other recent IPOs -- went well, not just for investors but overall? In this…
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a16z Podcast: London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
If the U.K. is to continue its economic march onward and upward, technology needs to play an increasing role, say Martha Lane Fox (that's Baroness of Soho…
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a16z Podcast: Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
There are those who would say that Aubrey de Grey is out to cure death, but what this former artificial intelligence specialist turned gerontologist is really…