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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: Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
The title of world's financial capital bounces back and forth between London and New York. This year London has bragging rights, but does being the word's…
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a16z Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
What is A.I. or artificial intelligence but the 'space of possible minds', argues Murray Shanahan, scientific advisor on the movie Ex Machina and Professor of…
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a16z Podcast: Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
Blockchain without bitcoin? It's a debate as old as the cryptocurrency itself (which, to be honest, isn't that old). Given that bitcoin is not just a digital…
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Lean Startups
What began as a scientific approach to creating and managing startups has now become a worldwide movement for companies of all sizes -- and for creating (or…
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a16z Podcast: A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
There's a "game" being played right now among lawmakers and tech companies around policy issues, and as tech touches everything, everyone has to play some…
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a16z Podcast: Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
Telepresence. It's an ugly, outdated word for an attractive and current/ emerging phenomenon where people can work from anywhere, anytime. It's technology for…
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a16z Podcast: 'The Most Boring Yet Valuable' 20 Minutes, All About Board Minutes
"The most boring yet valuable podcast in a16z history" -- he (our guest Joe Grundfest) said it, not we! That’s because in this episode of the a16z Podcast…
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a16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks
It's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to networks and…
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a16z Podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a…
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a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone
Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to mini…
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a16z Podcast: Belief -- An Interview with Oprah Winfrey
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)'s "Belief", which just premiered…
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a16z Podcast: Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would have been hard to imagine. Not so much that the two…
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a16z Podcast: AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its share of…
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a16z Podcast: The Role of Academia in the Startup World
Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web browser…
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a16z Podcast: How Big Companies Can Get the Most From Silicon Valley
There is a stream of the world's largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. But how do they find it, and then, how do they bring it…
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a16z Podcast: Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
Mention Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, and you’ll elicit a strong opinion. In 2004, one hedge fund manager labeled Byrne the most hated…
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a16z Podcast: A Podcast about Podcasts
Podcasts and podcasting have been around a while, but seem to be going through a renaissance of sorts -- partly enabled by connected cars and other…
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a16z Podcast: Money, Risk, and Software
Financial services are overdue for an overhaul. With a16z's newest general partner, Alex Rampell (who just officially started), this segment of the podcast…
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a16z Podcast: Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
Apple included support for ad blocking in its recent iOS 9 update, and for many that prompted discussions around an age-old question: Is traditional…
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a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: get some…
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a16z Podcast: Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
The internet as it has evolved in the United States is perhaps the best example of “permissionless innovation” -- the idea that you can innovate without first…
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a16z Podcast: The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
Legendary investor Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's financial partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) invokes a set of interdisciplinary "mental…
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a16z Podcast: Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
Apple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other company is likely to knock it from its perch in the near term…
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a16z Podcast: Code and Culture in South Central Los Angeles
South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recovered from the Rodney King riots of 1992. In South Central L.A…
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a16z Podcast: Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science to the web browser itself. Yet the process of moving from…
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a16z Podcast: Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on…
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a16z Podcast: Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in a society where the proxy for value is capital and much of…