a16z Podcast

By Andreessen Horowitz

Technology Business

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The a16z Podcast 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 podcast 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!

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10.19.2020

with @tzhongg @conniechan Gen Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—now makes up 35 percent of the population and represent $143 billion dollars in spending power. This episode is all about how brands can better understand, collaborate with, and resonate with ...

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10.19.2020 Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z with @tzhongg @conniechan Gen Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—now makes up 35 percent of the population and represent $143 billion dollars in spending power. This episode is all about how brands can better understand, collaborate with, and resonate with ...
10.14.2020 The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity with @gustavs @conniechan @smc90 We've talked a lot about podcasting, so where are we going with the future of audio, more broadly? Can we borrow from the present and future of video (e.g., TikTok) to see what's next in audio; ...
10.11.2020 Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups Today’s episode is a conversation about four big trends in the tech world. Any one of these trends would be notable on its own, but we cover all four in this hallway-style chat, as a16z General Partner Chris Dixon talks ...
10.08.2020 How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More with @annieduke @jeff_jordan All kinds of decisions, whether in life or business -- like marriage product management, what to eat or watch -- are a portfolio of investments. And obviously, not all decisions are equal; in fact, sometimes we don't ...
10.01.2020 Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials with @mira404 @illscience @seema_amble @laurenmurrow Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit and debt. This ...
09.27.2020 Degrading Drugs for Problem Proteins: Journal Club now on Bio Eats World (ep 2) with @carolynbertozzi @lr_bio This is the second episode in our new show, Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is technology. This show now includes Journal Club, where we discuss groundbreaking research articles, why they matter, ...
09.23.2020 The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) with @kristenfortney @laurademing @vijaypande @omnivorousread This is the very first episode in our new show, Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about how biology is technology: Bio is breaking out of the lab and clinic and into our ...
09.20.2020 TikTok & Beyond: The Algorithm Question, The Future of Product with @eugenewei @smc90 TikTok's For You Page algorithm (which could yet be excluded from the deal given Chinese government recently revised export controls around source code) enabled it to grab massive marketshare in cultures and markets never experienced firsthand by ...
09.18.2020 The New Fan Club: Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto) Today’s episode, part two in our two-part series on the Creator Economy, focuses on the new potential revenue streams and fan-engagement models opened up by emerging decentralized technology. It's a new type of fan club, driven by crypto networks and ...
09.17.2020 So You Want to Launch a Newsletter: Tips From Substack Writers This episode explores the process and economics behind creating an independent newsletter. In this candid conversation, host Lauren Murrow talks with four Substack writers—an artist, a technologist, a journalist, and a clinical researcher-turned-psychedelics scholar—about how to find and foster an ...
09.15.2020 Designing a Culture of Reinvention Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself... twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from ...
09.12.2020 Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz with @guyraz @smc90 For better or for worse, we tell the stories of entrepreneurs as one of the mythical hero's journey: that's there's a call, a test, a destination... But are we indulging in hero worship or failure porn? Where ...
09.11.2020 The Question of Education with @pmarca @zoink A wide-ranging Q&A all about education, from the purpose, past, and present of education; the economics of education (student loans & the debt crisis, government funding, cost disease, accreditation capture); tradeoffs of "hard" and "soft" degrees; and ...
09.04.2020 Pandemic Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect? This episode examines the potential for misuse and fraud among those applying for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—and how fintech and software provide overlooked tools to stop it. Host Lauren Murrow is joined by Bharat Ramamurti, the original member of ...
08.30.2020 Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond We know community is important -- whether for developer relations for your platform or just other types of communities -- but how do we measure the success of community initiatives and even artifacts (like events or schwag)? How do we ...
08.21.2020 Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses with @pwang @martin_casado AI/ML development is like reining in the natural world, more like physics and even metaphysics, where data and models are fluid. But this not just a philosophical observation; it has real implications for the margins, organizational structures, ...
08.17.2020 Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate This episode is all about education and technology, a topic that’s especially top of mind this week as students in much of the country return to school—virtually. The intersection of learning and technology has been accelerated by the pandemic, but ...
08.14.2020 On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond with @rvenkayya @jorgecondebio WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? What will and won’t be compromised here, and where ...
08.10.2020 Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans In this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building. Today’s topic: How do you create a platform that people not only use, but tell their friends about? One that ...
08.09.2020 Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T with @jorgecondebio @andy23tran and @lr_bio On this episode of the a16z Journal Club we discuss new research using engineered T cells to attack and destroy the "sleeping" cells that build up as we age and underlie many age-related conditions. This ...
08.02.2020 Working, Making, Creating in Public... and Private with @nayafia @smc90 Communities are everything, but the word "members" is faceless. What if there's a better, more modern way to understand, support, and design for communities of all kinds -- whether open source, passion economy, or other groups coming ...
07.30.2020 GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI with @smc90 @withfries2 Given all the recent buzz around the language model GPT-3 -- what is "it", how does it work, where does it fit into the arc of broader tech trends -- what's hype, what's real here? Are we ...
07.22.2020 Taking the Pulse on Medical Device Security with @AndreaCoravos, @beauwoods, and @omnivorousread Many don’t realize we even need to think about the possibility of security hacks when it comes to things like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and more. But when bits and bytes meet flesh and blood, security ...
07.19.2020 Journal Club: A New Path to Antibiotic Resistance With Nathalie Balaban and @lr_bio Antibiotic resistance is an urgent problem, but many aspects of how bacteria acquire this ability to evade the drugs designed to target them are still mysterious. On this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, ...
07.18.2020 Cybercrime, Incorporated with Joel de la Garza, Jonathan Lusthaus, and @omnivorousread Cybercrime is unfortunately as evergreen a topic as the problem itself—which is why we’re re-running this popular security episode all about the criminal industry of cybercrime from 2019. The idea of ...
07.15.2020 How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change with @MartyMakary and @julesyoo Dr. Marty Makary—surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and health policy and innovation expert—has long been a passionate advocate for transparent pricing in the healthcare system. We don’t talk enough (or really at ...
07.13.2020 Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole' More than 98% of the information on the web is lost within 20 years, and huge gaps exist in our digital and cultural history. Zoran Basich and Alex Pruden of a16z talk to Brewster Kahle and Sam Williams, who are ...
07.11.2020 Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship In part 2 of our series on human performance, rock climber Alex Honnold talks about the risk, fear, and preparation around his free solo of El Cap... and the parallels it has with entrepreneurship.
07.11.2020 Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit? Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performance with professional rock climber Alex Honnold.
07.07.2020 Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare @vijaypande reads out loud on why we shouldn't fear AI in healthcare/ medicine
07.07.2020 When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China @conniechan reads out loud on the case of WeChat and mobile in China
07.07.2020 Every Company Is a Fintech Company @astrange reads out loud on why every company is (or will be) a fintech company
07.07.2020 Read-Alouds, Continued continuing our series of a16z posts, read out loud by their authors here
07.05.2020 Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law With @jorgecondebio @vijaypande and @lr_bio On this special holiday weekend edition of the a16z bio Journal Club we discuss a recent opinion article suggesting the end of Eroom’s Law—the decades long trend in biopharma R&D towards higher and higher costs ...
06.30.2020 Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology With @trvrb @heyjudka and @lr_bio We speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about a wide-range of topics, including changes in scientific communication and publishing spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of genomic ...
06.28.2020 Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial with @justin_larkinMD and @lr_bio The FDA recently approved the first prescription video game. The a16z bio Journal Club covers one of the key clinical trials that supported this FDA decision and discusses the evidence showing that this game can have ...
06.27.2020 Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You Gross margins are one of the most important financial metrics for any startup, but figuring out what does and doesn't go into them as a company grows is not as simple as it sounds. In this episode, we discuss why ...
06.24.2020 Building Products for Power Users Superhuman Founder Rahul Vohra and a16z General Partner David Ulevitch discuss how to build a product that can turn any user into a power user.
06.21.2020 Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast with @heyjudka and @lr_bio a16z bio Journal Club covers recent research building artificial chloroplasts to improve the processes of photosynthesis and carbon fixation, and how these artificial chloroplasts could one day be used to improve crop growth and carbon sequestration ...
06.17.2020 Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2) This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. This episode, Part 2, focuses on the fallout for renters and landlords.
06.16.2020 Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. Part 2 (streaming on 6/17) addresses renters and landlords. How has social ...
06.14.2020 World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems with @vijaypande, @drGregBowman, @lr_bio This episode celebrates the 20th anniversary of Folding at Home, the distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics. Folding at Home is run on millions of devices, is the world’s largest supercomputer, and tackles some of ...
06.12.2020 The Return of Home-based Healthcare with @sacjai, @vjkedar, @julesyoo, @omnivorousread The way we deliver healthcare has changed enormously over the last century, shifting from house calls by doctors to your own to institutionalized settings like hospitals and clinics. But now that trend has started to ...
06.11.2020 The Future of Primary Care with @DrIvorHorn, @jeffkaditz, @julesyoo, @omnivorousread Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system, but in some ways never set up for success to begin with. We need a new operating system for primary care—one with ...
06.09.2020 All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say with @mmasnick and @smc90 What does (and doesn’t) this section of the Communications Decency Act really say; common myths and misconceptions; and much more on this recent episode of our show 16 Minutes, where we cover headlines and tech trends ...
06.04.2020 What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal with terrybrown @shakasenghor @bhorowitz Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal justice reform, and Terry Brown, a former police officer in East Palo ...
05.29.2020 SaaS Go-to-Upmarket It's easier to move upmarket than down. We look at why this gives SaaS startups the advantage against incumbents and how to price for the move.
05.26.2020 New Fan Engagement Models for Athletes and Influencers Today’s episode is about a practical application of crypto — namely, the way it can “tokenize” fandom. More broadly, it’s about fan engagement, and the increasingly blurred lines between sports, culture and tech. We talked to NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie, ...
05.24.2020 Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish! with @PascaStanford, @VijayPande, and @omnivorousread Our understanding of the human brain and its disorders has always been limited by our lack of access to living, human, developing brain tissue. For the first time, that's changing. In this episode, Sergiu Pasca, ...
05.23.2020 Pandemics: Early Detection, Networks, Spreaders with @nachristakis @jorgecondebio Going from rapid warning to early detection through social network sensors can make all the difference when it comes to contagion/ the spread of disease and pandemics. Can we get public health bio surveillance without sacrificing privacy ...

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a16z Podcast episodes:

Designing for, Marketing to, and Partnering With Gen Z

The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity

Tracking the Trends: AI, WebRTC, Crypto, and Full Stack Startups

How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Fintech for Gen Z and Millennials

Degrading Drugs for Problem Proteins: Journal Club now on Bio Eats World (ep 2)

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1)

TikTok & Beyond: The Algorithm Question, The Future of Product

The New Fan Club: Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto)

So You Want to Launch a Newsletter: Tips From Substack Writers

Designing a Culture of Reinvention

Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz

The Question of Education

Pandemic Relief and Fraud: Willful Deceit or Design Defect?

Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond

Reining in Complexity: Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses

Online Learning and the Ed Tech Debate

On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans

Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging with CAR T

Working, Making, Creating in Public... and Private

GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI

Taking the Pulse on Medical Device Security

Journal Club: A New Path to Antibiotic Resistance

Cybercrime, Incorporated

How Transparent Pricing Drives Healthcare Change

Preserving Digital History: How to Close the Web's 'Memory Hole'

Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship

Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?

Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

Every Company Is a Fintech Company

Read-Alouds, Continued

Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law

Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology

Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial

Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You

Building Products for Power Users

Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1)

World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems

The Return of Home-based Healthcare

The Future of Primary Care

All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say

What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal

SaaS Go-to-Upmarket

New Fan Engagement Models for Athletes and Influencers

Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!

Pandemics: Early Detection, Networks, Spreaders

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