a16z Podcast

By Andreessen Horowitz

Technology Business

What's a16z Podcast about?

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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Systems Leadership for Disr...

07.24.2021

with @robsiegel @jeffimmelt @jeff_jordan @smc90 There's been a false dichotomy in technology and management lore over the past decade, between "brain" and "brawn", digital and physical, independence and interdependence, software culture versus industrial culture… Whether you're an early startup or ...

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07.24.2021 Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents with @robsiegel @jeffimmelt @jeff_jordan @smc90 There's been a false dichotomy in technology and management lore over the past decade, between "brain" and "brawn", digital and physical, independence and interdependence, software culture versus industrial culture… Whether you're an early startup or ...
05.19.2021 NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow Recently, a16z and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research hosted the NFT Virtual Summit, which brought together leading thinkers and builders on the topic of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens — these tokens are enabling new creator and ownership economies to ...
05.02.2021 Man, Mosquito, Malaria Vaccine with @jorgecondebio @rvenkayya @smc90 We dig into what's hype/ what's real about news of a breakthrough malaria vaccine candidate, beyond the headlines and beyond the buzz: data, science, tech, and the long arc of innovation. Because this is an innovation ...
04.17.2021 Crypto, an Oral Essay This is a special episode of the a16z podcast — it's an audio history, told through the voices of the a16z crypto team, about what crypto is, how it really works, and why it matters. This "innovation overview" is meant ...
04.08.2021 On Monetizing Community with Patreon Cofounder Sam Yam with @samyamiam @ljin18 @laurenmurrow It's clear from the growth of Patreon, Substack, TikTok, Clubhouse and many more that the power of the Creator Economy continues to build. In this episode, first published a year ago, Patreon cofounder Sam Yam, Atelier ...
04.03.2021 The Creator Economy: NFTs and Beyond In today’s episode of the a16z Podcast, we’re talking about the Creator Economy, and how NFTs (but not just NFTs!) are making it possible for artists, musicians, videogamers, game developers, and writers to create entirely new markets to make money ...
03.28.2021 All about NFTs with @ljxie @jessewldn @smc90 From "I've never seen anything like this before" to "is this like ICOs all over again" to "it's just a jpg I don't get it" to "but what about the energy use!" -- this special deep-dive ...
03.24.2021 The Next Wave of Marketplace Startups with @conniechan @DCoolican @jeff_jordan @laurenmurrow and @sriramk Marketplaces encompass a huge swath of services we use every day, from grocery delivery to online shopping to remote learning. Which marketplace companies are on a tear and which are locked in close ...
03.18.2021 The Third Vaccine, and Vaccine Choice Understanding J&J vaccine efficacy and more.
03.09.2021 Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are with @bhorowitz @smc90 This podcast (which was recorded at the Computer History Museum before the pandemic) is all about how companies create culture beyond their values and mission statements: A lot's changed... and a lot hasn't. Based on the book ...
02.28.2021 Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz We share the second installment of Boss Talk, a weekly live show on Clubhouse, where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff… you know, boss stuff.
02.25.2021 All About Ransomware How ransomware works, from the anatomy of a hack to how the groups operate; the role of nation-states, insurers, and regulators; and what to do if your stuff is taken hostage...
02.17.2021 One on One with Marc and Ben With @pmarca and @bhorowitz In this special episode, Andreessen Horowitz co-founders Marc and Ben have two “one on one” conversations, answering questions from Twitter covering everything from company building to tech trends and culture.
02.08.2021 Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More with @billcarr89 @cbryar @smc90 When you hear stories about Amazon's famous "invention machine", we often hear about things like: Memos, six pages exactly and no powerpoints at al! Or, the idea of "work backwards from the press release". But what's ...
02.01.2021 Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How with @stevenadair @smc90 joeldelagarza In this special cross-promo episode, we cover the SolarWinds hack, one of the largest known hacks of all time... and the ripple effects are only now starting to be revealed -- especially given latest reports from ...
01.23.2021 Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects As psychedelics have shifted from drugs of abuse and recreation to powerful drugs for treating neuropsychiatric conditions -- such as depression, addiction, and PTSD -- how we can maximize their therapeutic benefits while minimizing their adverse side effects?
01.13.2021 Developers as Creatives with @jeffiel @davidu @smc90 The rise of developers -- as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class -- is a direct result of "software eating the world", since every company is a tech company (whether they know it or not). ...
01.09.2021 Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond with @mmasnick @smc90 All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in "one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I've heard" (per WIRED)
01.06.2021 Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next with @pmarca @vijaypande If software’s eating the world -- and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries -- why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant?
12.24.2020 Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year) with @GretchenAMcC @smc90 In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”... so it's unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary did NOT name a word of the year. ...
12.21.2020 The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel tells the story of not just the vaccine’s development, but the machine that made the vaccine: the platform, the technology, and the moves behind the vaccine’s development. Aired on Bio Eats World right after FDA EUA.
12.14.2020 The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech Special omnibus episode combining two previous episodes on the a16z Podcast network, discussing the relevance, considerations, and problems/ solutios of the Paycheck Protection Program (or PPP) from the Small Business Administration (and the role of government stimulus/ pandemic relief for ...
12.07.2020 The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech with @DCoolican @illscience @laurenmurrow The intersection of social networks and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money online—have given way to an ambitious new wave of financial products. Fintech partner Anish Acharya, formerly a product manager ...
12.04.2020 On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs with @martin_casado @armon @smc90 As companies evolve -- especially from product to sales to scaling operations -- so must the leaders. But can the same person transition across all these phases? When and when not; what are the qualities, criteria, ...
11.26.2020 On Food As Medicine (A Holiday Snack) What happens if we treat food as a medicine in the healthcare system?
11.22.2020 Crypto Creators: On Art Galleries to 'Tokenized' Collectibles This episode features Q&As with two artists who are exploring crypto-powered auction sites and marketplaces – this is part of our ongoing series on the creator economy. The big picture is that emerging "tokenization" models, especially non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, ...
11.20.2020 What to Know about Those Vaccines with @vintweeta @jorgecondebio @smc90 Given our early and ongoing coverage of coronavirus in this feed, we share a recent episode of 16 Minutes breaking down the 4 D's and what to know about recent news around the vaccines.
11.16.2020 The Social Serendipity of Cloud Gaming with @ibjade @Tocelot @laurenmurrow True cloud-native games—those exclusive to and solely playable within the cloud—are poised to revolutionize gameplay and unlock new avenues of hyper-personalized storytelling and socializing. In this episode, Jade Raymond, VP of Stadia Games and Entertainment, and ...
11.13.2020 The Great Data Debate Lakes v. warehouses, analytics v. AI/ML, SQL v. everything else... As the technical capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses converge, are the separate tools and teams that run AI/ML and analytics converging as well?
11.05.2020 How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!) with Matt Abrahams & smc90 Whether participating in a meeting, doing a panel, conducting a live event, presenting a talk, or even hosting a podcast, these are expert best practices for moderating and managing discussions across modes and mediums. (Including ...
10.24.2020 Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization with @vpostrel @smc90 The story of textiles IS the story, history, and evolution of technology and science (across all kinds of fields, from biology to chemistry); of commerce (as well as management, measurement, machines); but most of all, of civilization ...
10.23.2020 Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures Just having data is not enough: it takes an entire system of tools and technology to extract value from data. a hallway style conversation between Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Founder of Databricks, and a16z general partner Martin Casado explore the ...
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 ...

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a16z Podcast episodes:

Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents

NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow

Man, Mosquito, Malaria Vaccine

Crypto, an Oral Essay

On Monetizing Community with Patreon Cofounder Sam Yam

The Creator Economy: NFTs and Beyond

All about NFTs

The Next Wave of Marketplace Startups

The Third Vaccine, and Vaccine Choice

Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are

Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz

All About Ransomware

One on One with Marc and Ben

Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More

Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What Where When How

Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects

Developers as Creatives

Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond

Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next

Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)

The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation

The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech

The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech

On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs

On Food As Medicine (A Holiday Snack)

Crypto Creators: On Art Galleries to 'Tokenized' Collectibles

What to Know about Those Vaccines

The Social Serendipity of Cloud Gaming

The Great Data Debate

How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!)

Textiles as Tech, Science, Math, Culture... or Civilization

Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures

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

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