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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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Marc Andreessen on Evaluating Founders and AI's Consumer Surplus
This episode originally aired on The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings. Marc Andreessen explains why learning from past investment mistakes can be a trap…
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The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they…
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Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its approach to…
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Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager…
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The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power crisis at the heart of…
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Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z
Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground…
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Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar
In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and…
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AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
A new paper, “Some Simple Economics of AGI,” is making the rounds—Web3 with a16z we sat down with author Christian Catalini (MIT Crypto Economics Lab) and Eddy…
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AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from…
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What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update…
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AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore
In this episode, originally aired on Big Technology Podcast, Olivia Moore discusses whether AI startups can compete with the big chatbots, why American…
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Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra
Marc Andreessen joins David Senra for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world’s most ambitious builders. In this…
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Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at…
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race
This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role…
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What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO
In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now…
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The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Claude…
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Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
Daisy Wolf speaks with Dr. Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. They…
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Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
Alex Rampell and Erik Torenberg speak with Mike Cannon-Brookes, cofounder and CEO of Atlassian, about how to make sense of the SaaS selloff, why not all…
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Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power
In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and…
The a16z ShowDeploying AI in Healthcare
a16z general partner Julie Yoo talks with Nikhil Buduma, CEO and cofounder of Ambience Healthcare, to discuss how AI is transforming clinical workflows. They…
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Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder
On the show Long Strange Trip, Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan speaks with a16z’s Ben Horowitz about what separates great founder CEOs from everyone…
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Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto
In this feed drop from the Internet History Podcast, host Brian McCullough speaks with Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z, about his path from 1980s hobbyist…
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a16z's New Media Playbook
Erik Torenberg, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen discuss how the media landscape has fundamentally changed and what a16z is doing about it. They cover why…
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When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market
Bloomberg's Odd Lots hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway speak with David George, general partner at a16z and head of the firm's growth fund, about why $5…
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Ben Horowitz: RSI, Crypto as AI Money, & Classified Physics
Moonshots host Peter Diamandis speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, alongside regular cohosts Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Dr…
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Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk and…
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AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power
a16z's Martin Casado and Sarah Wang join Latent Space hosts Alessio Fanelli and Swyx to discuss what makes this AI investment cycle unlike anything in the…
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From Copilots to Agents: Rebuilding the Company Around AI
a16z's Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez speak with Carlos García Ottati, founder and CEO of Kavak, about building Latin America's largest online used car…
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WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation
In this episode from WSJ Invest Live, Andy Serwer speaks with Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z, about the American Dynamism practice she helped launch…
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Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company
a16z general partner Jorge Conde talks with Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis International, about transforming a 250-year-old conglomerate into a pure play…
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Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State
Balaji Srinivasan speaks with Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, about China's industrial rise, America's competing strengths in software and finance, and what…
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Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead in a World of AI?
In this episode from 20VC, Harry Stebbings talks with Anish Acharya, general partner at a16z, about the future of SaaS in an AI world. Anish argues that…
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How Magic Johnson Built a Billion-Dollar Portfolio in 30 Years
a16z’s Chris Lyons speaks with Earvin "Magic" Johnson about his 30-year journey from athlete to billionaire businessman. They cover the art of deal-making…
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Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?
Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel speaks with a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen about why AI may finally break a 50-year productivity slump—and what's at stake…
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The State of Markets
a16z Head of Investor Relations Jen Kha speaks with general partner David George about the state of AI and private technology markets. David shares data on why…
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Balaji & Benedict Evans: When Tech Breaks Industries
This episode originally appeared on the Network State Podcast. Balaji Srinivasan and Benedict Evans sit down in Singapore for a wide-ranging conversation on…
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Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES
Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal sit down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado on WSJ’s Bold Names to ask whether the AI spending…
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Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem
a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed. They discuss why American health outcomes are so poor compared to the…
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Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation
Recorded live at our Founders Summit, a16z general partner Chris Dixon speaks with Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus VR. They talk about what it…
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David Solomon & Ben Horowitz on Building Organizational Resilience & Navigating Macro Uncertainty
a16z general partner David Haber spoke with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz on the current macro environment, enterprise AI…
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“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five times last year's rate—and 96% aren't coming from AI coding…
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Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History
Recently, Marc Andreessen joined Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny's Podcast. They talked about why 2025 may be the most significant year in tech history, how AI is…
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Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States
Can a country be built from the internet up? Not as a metaphor or an online community, but as a system that replaces institutions we usually think of as fixed…
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Healthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance Defection
Out-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in…
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The Hidden Economics Powering AI
In this episode, Jen Kha, Head of Investor Relations, and David George, General Partner, discuss how late-stage private markets are evolving as AI reshapes…
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How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents
Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, Andreessen…
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Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference…
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Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI
In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing…
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From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington…
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The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models
The a16z AI Apps team outlines how they are thinking about the AI application cycle and why they believe it represents the largest and fastest product shift in…
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How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs…
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Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a conversation on how the…
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Alex Rampell on TBPN: Revenge, Redemption, and Founder Drive
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell joined the Technology Brothers Podcast Network following the announcement of Andreessen Horowitz’s new fund to discuss what…
The a16z ShowBen Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
AI is changing how companies are built and how venture firms operate, forcing faster decisions, clearer judgment, and new ways of working. In this exclusive…
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Alex Rampell on Venture at Scale and Founder Incentives
This episode is a special feed drop from The Twenty Minute VC, featuring a conversation between Harry Stebbings and a16z General Partner Alex Rampell. Alex…
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Ben Horowitz on TBPN: Three Decades with Marc and Building for the Long Game
Following the announcement of a16z’s new fund, Andreessen Horowitz cofounder and general partner Ben Horowitz joined TBPN to discuss how Andreessen Horowitz…
The a16z ShowBen Horowitz on Raising a New Fund and How Venture Firms Scale
In this feed drop from Uncapped, Jack Altman sits down with a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz to unpack the founding bet behind Andreessen Horowitz. VC should be a…
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Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents
In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies like…
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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
a16z co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen joins an AMA-style conversation to explain why AI is the largest technology shift he has experienced, how…
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Figma’s Dylan Field on the Future of Design
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design…