a16z Podcast

By Andreessen Horowitz

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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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The Future of Cheese

06.02.2023

Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande. Together, they talk about the details of engineering plants to create the future of food, why ...

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06.02.2023 The Future of Cheese Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande. Together, they talk about the details of engineering plants to create the future of food, why ...
05.25.2023 The Rise of the Exponential Organization Many companies today are grappling with a few things: an economic downturn, potential layoffs and restructuring, and trying to keep up with the latest tech trends… all while still maintaining a growth trajectory. In this episode, you’ll learn which companies ...
05.22.2023 How Fintech is Reshaping Our $4T Healthcare Industry In this episode, you’ll hear directly from 6 founders trying to reinvent the healthcare system with the help of Fintech. They’re tackling everything from the lack of price transparency, the complexity of billing, getting clinics paid on time, mental health ...
05.15.2023 Embedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking 2022 was a breakout year for AI. While machine learning had already been integrated into applications for millions of users, for many, these tools still felt like their first real-world encounter with AI. As AI continues to revolutionize industries, CEOs ...
05.09.2023 When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech Most people don’t need a reminder of the state of healthcare in America. But it’s not just the consumer that’s hurting. Medical debt is increasing, billions are lost in unpaid claims, hospitals are in the red, service prices can range ...
05.02.2023 From Promise to Reality: Inside a16z's Data and AI Forum Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang declared in a recent keynote, “we are in the iPhone moment of AI.” This special episode will give you an inside look into a16z’s Data and AI Forum, hosted the day GPT-4 came out, featuring many ...
04.24.2023 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity In a recent episode, we delved into the first wave of technology that was used to create digital influencers like 'Lil Miquela back in 2016. Fast forward to today, we're presented with a whole new set of tools that enable ...
04.19.2023 Insights from the Frontlines of Consumer Tech There is arguably nothing that impacts our daily lives more than consumer technology. This technology can drive our ability to change careers, build an audience, or feel understood. And in this episode, listeners get a sneak peek into our new ...
04.13.2023 Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More with @amandacassatt @kimbatronic @smc90 All about marketing, and web3 -- not just for marketers already in or seeking to enter web3, but also anyone doing community marketing/ community management, devrel (developer relations); or simply doing marketing in web2 or classic ...
04.06.2023 Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants People often say that building a hardware company is like “playing on hard mode”. Building a hardware company during a global pandemic, with the unpredictability of supply chains and markets, is harder than hard. Trying to penetrate the phone market ...
03.30.2023 Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela You’ve probably heard of ‘Lil Miquela. The 19 year-old Brazilian-American inﬂuencer has millions of followers and has partnered with the likes of Samsung and Prada. But despite capturing the hearts of many, she’s not real. But you probably haven’t heard ...
03.23.2023 The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce Over the last decade, we’ve seen the marketplace model evolve and grow, and this year a16z is back with our fourth edition of the Marketplace100 – a ranking of the top private marketplaces by GMV - giving a unique window ...
03.20.2023 The Art and Science of Podcasting It’s both easier and harder than ever to build a successful podcast. In this episode, we chat with Sriram and Aarthi from the Good Time Show, who ventured into the world of audio peak pandemic and have since interviewed the ...
03.09.2023 Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering With every new technology, some jobs are lost while others are gained. People often focus on the former, but in this episode we chose to highlight the latter – a highly creative role that emerges alongside AI: the prompt engineer. ...
03.07.2023 Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey Starting in the 1960s, technology companies, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, were essential for creating the processors that would eventually launch satellites and guide missiles. Half a century later, today’s tech companies can — and need — to ...
03.01.2023 The Robot Lawyer Resistance Should AI belong in the courtroom? Joshua Browder ventured to run an experiment where a robot lawyer would defend a court case. Looking to up the ante, he even offered $1m for a Supreme Court hearing! His experiment was met ...
02.22.2023 The Challenge of Replicating Reality What would you do if you believed in an idea but everyone said it would fail, nobody would fund you, and the industry was experiencing a nuclear winter? Despite experiencing exactly that, Sandbox VR founder Steve Zhao doubled down and ...
02.16.2023 The 1000x Developer A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers generating some of the highest paying salaries out there. But the field ...
02.09.2023 The State of Apps A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, billion! — since the launch of the App Store in 2008, highlighting the cast opportunity in the marketplace. And around the same time, a16z ...
02.07.2023 Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs, founders, or journalists – had something to say. But the one person that you didn’t ...
02.03.2023 Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging In this cross-over episode from Bio Eats World, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to discuss the biology of aging, how she started a ...
01.27.2023 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2) At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023. Emerging from this exercise came 40+ builder-worthy pursuits for the ...
01.24.2023 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1) At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023. Emerging from this exercise came 40+ builder-worthy pursuits for the ...
01.19.2023 The Human Behind the Genius In this special episode, we share never heard before footage from Steve Wozniak alongside his cofounder and best man, Alex Fielding. Listeners get an inside look into what drove Woz to building a computer, but also how Steve’s zest for ...
01.12.2023 Building for Tomorrow New year, new you! Right? Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the reality is that we often resist change. That’s why we’ve brought in someone who has studied how humans respond to ...
01.10.2023 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, and more.
01.06.2023 Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90 A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between technology, content, and distribution; as well as Bob’s journey -- and that of various creators! -- especially as the industry evolved from TV and cable to ...
12.27.2022 Best Clips of 2022 We’ve had some incredible guests join us on the a16z podcast this year, ranging from moonshot entrepreneurs, to top creators, to some of the most forward thinking technologists – all of which are busy shaping the future right before our ...
12.20.2022 Pay Without Borders with Deel, GitLab, and Safetywing It’s been a century since the 40-hour work week was adopted, and decades since wifi has appeared on the scene. Despite countless new technologies fundamentally changing how we can work, many work practices have remained the same. COVID sent a ...
12.13.2022 Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization In this episode, we tackle three carbon removal projects of varying scale, business models, and technical challenges. -Biomass pyrolysis via Charm Industrial -An electrochemical process via Travertine -Mineralization via 44.01 We cover these companies through the lens of their founders ...
12.08.2022 Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard of the recent FTX scandal. While there’s much still unknown, in this episode we get the unique opportunity to hear from Brian Armstrong – co-founder and CEO of Coinbase – about ...
12.06.2022 Building a Marketplace for Carbon In part 1 of our carbon removal series, we talked to Nan Ransohoff — Head of Climate at Stripe — about what it might take to jumpstart the market of carbon removal solutions. But what happens when there is a ...
11.30.2022 The Economics of Carbon Removal with Nan Ransohoff What happens when there’s demand for a solution that doesn’t quite exist yet? Today, we bring on Nan Ransohoff to talk about this exact problem as it relates to carbon removal, and how Frontier — the initiative out of Stripe ...
11.24.2022 Ryan Petersen on Rearchitecting the Supply Chain In today’s episode, we have a special treat. Flexport’s co-CEO and Founder, Ryan Petersen, chats with a16z Growth Editor Das Rush. They start with the question of why Ryan has chosen – of all the problem spaces to work on ...
11.22.2022 Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse When Neal Stephenson coined “the metaverse” three decades ago, his book Snow Crash was found on the shelves of “science fiction”. While the book remains in that category, many of its concepts are now found in reality… Fast forward to ...
11.17.2022 The Factory of the Future with Chris Power Today, we have an episode with Chris Power, the founder and CEO of Hadrian. Hadrian is a company trying to build the most efficient factories on the planet. In this conversation, we’ll introduce the audience to advanced manufacturing, and expose ...
11.15.2022 Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan. As the world becomes more digital, it also becomes more distributed. This is obvious on the individual level – how you order goods, the way you ...
11.09.2022 AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng Generative AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have taken the world by storm in recent months, wowing the masses with their uncanny ability to produce images via text prompts. In this interview, we’ll chat with Karen Cheng about ...
11.09.2022 Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen With much coverage of technology lined with pessimism, the a16z Podcast returns to highlight the bright side of technology, alongside the founders building it. But before featuring the solutions in progress, we wanted to explore why building the future is ...
11.09.2022 The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah Many people consider space to be the next frontier and equally an infinite horizon to explore. But the reality is that not all “space” is the same and there are strategic zones that don’t only matter up there – but ...
11.07.2022 The a16z Podcast Returns The long-standing (and chart-topping) a16z Podcast returns to cover the most important topics within the world of technology. Brought to you by the minds at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and hosted by Steph Smith, each episode goes beyond headlines, giving listeners ...
10.28.2022 Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible? a16z general partners Vijay Pande and Jon Lai discuss the challenge of building a game that’s both fun and therapeutic.
10.19.2022 Cycles of Computing, Now and Next a16z general partner Chris Dixon and Proof Collective co-founder Kevin Rose take a tour through current tech trends in web3 and beyond, from NFTs and art to AI, copyright, communities, the growing tech scenes in LA and NYC, and more.
10.14.2022 The Future of Audio The future of audio is about more than just podcasting or streaming music -- it's about audio as an experience that both creators and listeners can interact with in new ways. Spotify's chief R&D officer joins this episode to discuss ...
10.06.2022 Culture as Code How do you build, set, shape, fix, and change your culture? a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz digs into this and more while discussing his latest book, What You Do is Who You Are.
09.28.2022 On Mentorship and Leadership Behind many great leaders, you’ll usually find a great mentor. a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz discusses mentorship and leadership with his mentor, Silicon Valley legend Ken Coleman, and his mentee, Michel Feaster, founder of Usermind and Chief Product Officer of Qualtrics.
09.07.2022 Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change How do you transform and innovate as your company grows and matures, even as the underlying technology platforms shift? Michael Dell of Dell Technologies joins a16z's Martin Casado, Marc Andreessen, and Sonal Choksi to discuss.
09.03.2022 How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit Getting to “product-market fit” is one of the key milestones for any startup. But for enterprise and B2B founders, product-market fit often requires a strong strategy around how you sell that product.
08.26.2022 The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z It’s back to school season, and student loans and education funding are top of mind. Beyond the policy debates, though, what is the opportunity for fintech to help students and other young people navigate their first big financial decisions? Mos ...
08.19.2022 How to Make Better Decisions How do you make a smart and logical decision when you don’t have all the facts – and probably never will? When and how do you decide to go against consensus opinion? Decision strategist and professional poker player Annie Duke ...

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a16z Podcast episodes:

The Future of Cheese

The Rise of the Exponential Organization

How Fintech is Reshaping Our $4T Healthcare Industry

Embedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking

When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech

From Promise to Reality: Inside a16z's Data and AI Forum

Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity

Insights from the Frontlines of Consumer Tech

Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More

Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants

Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela

The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce

The Art and Science of Podcasting

Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering

Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey

The Robot Lawyer Resistance

The Challenge of Replicating Reality

The 1000x Developer

The State of Apps

Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann

Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)

2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)

The Human Behind the Genius

Building for Tomorrow

Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower

Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger

Best Clips of 2022

Pay Without Borders with Deel, GitLab, and Safetywing

Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization

Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things

Building a Marketplace for Carbon

The Economics of Carbon Removal with Nan Ransohoff

Ryan Petersen on Rearchitecting the Supply Chain

Neal Stephenson on The Future of the Metaverse

The Factory of the Future with Chris Power

Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State

AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng

Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen

The Data Highway Above with Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah

The a16z Podcast Returns

Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?

Cycles of Computing, Now and Next

The Future of Audio

Culture as Code

On Mentorship and Leadership

Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change

How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z

How to Make Better Decisions

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