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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The Truth about 1000 True F...

01.27.2020

The idea of "1000 true fans" argued that to be a successful creator, you don’t need millions of customers or clients, as long as you also have a direct relationship with those fans. But how is media changing today as ...

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01.27.2020 The Truth about 1000 True Fans + the Price of Our Attention The idea of "1000 true fans" argued that to be a successful creator, you don’t need millions of customers or clients, as long as you also have a direct relationship with those fans. But how is media changing today as ...
01.27.2020 Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating with @cjgbest @robertcottrell @andrewchen @smc90 A new ecosystem is forming around the direct relationship between consumers, content creators, and the tools and business models to facilitate all that. We're not just seeing this phenomenon in newsletters and podcasting, but also ...
01.19.2020 What's Next for the Internet? Chris Dixon, a16z General Partner, is interviewed by Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO of Buzzfeed. They discuss all things internet, including how innovation comes about, the ways disparate trends collide, and more.
01.16.2020 Controlling AI AI can do a lot of specific tasks as well as, or even better than, humans can — for example, it can more accurately classify images, more efficiently process mail, and more logically manipulate a Go board. While we have ...
01.14.2020 Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of enormous upheaval and change, and rapidly emerging technology. The same could ...
01.11.2020 On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation with @vasnarasimhan @jorgecondebio @vijaypande @smc90 How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation, from R&D to go to market to talent and more?
01.06.2020 Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really? with @jorgecondebio and @smc90 A look-back and look-forward on the topic of personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media on the topics of DNA sequencing, personalized medicine, criminal investigations, genetic privacy and large datasets, ...
01.02.2020 Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future Kevin Kelly interviews Marc Andreessen at our most recent innovation Summit; they discuss the evolution of technology, key trends, and why they're the most optimistic people in the room.
12.23.2019 What to Know about CFIUS with @mikeleiter @katie_haun What does the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) and updates to the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) mean for founders taking investments from or doing joint ventures with foreign entities or just ...
12.19.2019 Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt? A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a high enough salary to afford it. It's called an income ...
12.17.2019 Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want with @shondarhimes @pmarca The creator of hit shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and others, writer and executive producer Shonda Rhimes shares lessons she's learned about pitching ideas, storytelling, leadership, and scaling a business across mediums.
12.17.2019 The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape with @pmarca and @mjr2 In this special guest hosted episode -- cross-posted from the new show Starting Greatness (featuring interviews with startup builders before they were successful, hosted by Mike Maples jr) -- Marc Andreessen shares some rare, behind-the-scenes details ...
12.11.2019 Direct Listings, Myths and Facts with @stacey_cunning barrymccarthy @smc90 Another route to the public markets is the direct listing, recently reinvented for tech companies (with Spotify and Slack so far). This episode of the a16z Podcast brings together two experts from the frontlines -- the ...
12.07.2019 The Stories and Code of Culture Change with @bhorowitz @smc90 How do you build, set, shape, fix, change, culture? Sharing practical advice while drawing on examples of culture as code from a thousand years ago to today, as shared in his new book What You Do Is ...
12.03.2019 Of Container Ships, Supply Chains, and Retail The world's largest shopping days (Black Friday, Singles Day in China, Prime Day online, and so on) means shipping lots and lots of boxes, via big-box retailers and container ships -- but that's not the only reason we're re-running this ...
11.28.2019 Nursing Today, From the Bedside and Beyond with @imanabuzeid @julesyoo @jeff_jordan @omnivorousread For most of us, nurses are essentially the face of the healthcare system. In this episode, we take a look at the role of that unsung hero of healthcare, the nurse, from an industry level.
11.27.2019 How We Podcast with @smc90 @conniechan Many believe that podcasts -- authentic, intimate -- are organic conversations without editing. But most of the work often happens before and after the conversation itself, in everything from the programming to the editing. In this special ...
11.20.2019 Brand Building Ideas… and People with @wennmachers @smc90 Many technical founders believe that great products and ideas sell themselves, without any extra effort or marketing. But in reality, they often need public relations (PR). The irony is, most of the work involved in PR is ...
11.02.2019 Come for the Games, Stay for the Party From Fortnite to Untitled Goose Game, next-generation video games are unlike anything we've seen before. These are the tech trends turning gaming into a massive, culture-defining phenomenon.
10.24.2019 AI in B2B Consumer software may have adopted and incorporated AI ahead of enterprise software, where the data is more proprietary, and the market is a few thousand companies not hundreds of millions of smartphone users. But recently AI has found its way ...
10.21.2019 Free Software and Open Source Business Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business. In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of HashiCorp; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; ...
10.15.2019 Of Emojis and Innovation with @fredbenenson @jenny8lee and @smc90 A whole new set of emojis are about to hit people's phone within a month, but that's not the only reason we're re-running this popular (and defining!) episode of the a16z Podcast from 2015. It's ...
10.04.2019 The Environment, Capitalism, Technology It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment. But is this interplay between human growth vs. environment really a zero-sum game? Even if it were true in ...
09.30.2019 16 Minutes on the News #10: Amazon Healthcare, Oculus VR/AR, Google Quantum Supremacy? News and trends covered this week include: * Amazon's move into care delivery, initially for employees, what it means for incumbents and startups, the future of healthcare -- with @julesyoo @jorgecondebio * Oculus Connect 6, Facebook's annual developer event, where ...
09.28.2019 New Business Models for Gaming, Collaboration, Creativity The biggest shift in gaming happened with the combination of cloud, social, and mobile. As with all great tech shifts, though, it's really the underlying business models that really create new startup opportunities. With blockchain technology and cryptoeconomic business models, ...
09.23.2019 16 Minutes on the News #9: All the Recent Phone Hacks News and trends covered this week include: * FBI's latest note on social engineering of two-factor authentication * Simjacker spyware via SMS * Google Project Zero vs. Apple, and Apple's year in security * what can we do to secure ...
09.17.2019 a16z Podcast: The Biology of Pain What is the nature of physical pain? Why do we even experience it? Is there one type, or many? Do people experience pain differently? What is happening in our brains and our bodies when we experience pain? What is the ...
09.16.2019 16 Minutes on the News #8: Apple Camera, Services; Wearables - Where are We with @benedictevans @vijaypande and @smc90 This is episode #8 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point ...
09.06.2019 a16z Podcast: How to Pay for Healthcare Based on Health There's been a lot of talk about the need for our healthcare system to shift away from volume and fee-for-service, where you pay by appointment, procedure, etc, to value-based care, where you pay for both quality and outcomes—essentially, good health...
09.06.2019 The Hustler's Guide to the Hair Business with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor @diishanimira @therealritabee Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms -- and mindsets -- for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the hustle t...
09.06.2019 The Hustler's Guide to Getting Paid with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor ram @earnin & vaughn ferguson Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms — and mindsets — for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the ...
09.06.2019 The Hustler's Guide to Preschool with @bhorowitz @shakasenghor @8ennett & sherie james Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms -- and mindsets -- for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the hustle ...
09.06.2019 Introducing Hustlin' Tech We're excited to introduce a new podcast series hosted by a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Shaka Senghor, a leading voice in criminal justice reform and bestselling author. The series is called “Hustlin’ Tech” and so far, there are three episodes ...
09.02.2019 a16z Podcast: Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan! "You cannot be IN it... and not be OF it." Dapper Dan a.k.a. Daniel Day shares his remarkable history and story of defining an era of fashion and cultural influence in this special episode of the a16z Podcast — based ...
08.29.2019 a16z Podcast: From the Internet's Past to the Future of Crypto What can we learn from the history of the internet for the future of crypto? In this episode of the a16z Podcast, general partner Katie Haun interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen -- and co-founder of Netscape, which helped popularize and ...
08.28.2019 a16z Podcast: What to Know about FedRAMP with @ldhawke and @stevesi The government wants to get onto the cloud! But how do they assess the levels of risk in adopting specific cloud products, and which "cloud service providers" (aka "CSPs") to work with? That's where FedRAMP -- ...
08.25.2019 16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment with @illscience and @smc90 This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in ...
08.15.2019 a16z Podcast: Software has eaten the world...and healthcare is next Back in 2011, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen first made the bold claim that software would eat the world. In this episode (originally recorded as part of an event at a16z), Andreesseen and a16z general partner on the bio fund Jorge ...
08.12.2019 16 Minutes on the News #6: Health Claims, Corporate Breaches with @julesyoo @smc90 This is episode #6 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in tech ...
08.11.2019 16 Minutes on the News #5: Fed Real-time Payments, Death of Retail with @astrange @jeff_jordan and @smc90 This is episode #5 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point ...
08.04.2019 16 Minutes on the News: The Opioid Crisis with @jorgecondebio @vijaypande and @smc90 This is episode #4 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point ...
08.04.2019 16 Minutes on the News: Fortnite, Esports, Gaming, and Entertainment with @andrewchen @dcoolican and @smc90 This is episode #3 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point ...
07.28.2019 16 Minutes on the News: Mobile Malware, Drug Pricing with @martin_casado @jorgeconde @jayrughani and @smc90 This is episode #2 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage ...
07.23.2019 a16z Podcast: The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices with Kurt House (@kurtzhouse), John Thompson, Connie Chan (@conniechan) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The exploration for and mining of certain metals has driven huge epochs of human civilization, from copper and iron to gold and diamonds. In t...
07.21.2019 16 Minutes on the News: Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio with @vijaypande @conniechan @jpm25 and @smc90 Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way -- why are these topics in the news; what's real, what's ...
07.19.2019 a16z Podcast: How To Get The Most From Your Board In this final of a 3-part series (which originally aired as YouTube videos) on working with venture investors, a16z Managing Partner Scott Kupor shares best practices for working with your board as it grows from just you, your co-founders and ...
07.18.2019 a16z Podcast: How To Raise Money From A Venture Investor So you've decided raising venture capital is the best fundraising strategy for your startup. Now what? In this second of a 3-part series, a16z Managing Partner Scott Kupor shares actionable fundraising advice based on his experience of seeing thousa...
07.17.2019 a16z Podcast: How To Understand And Choose A Venture Investor Incentives matter. So understanding the incentives of venture capitalists will help you decide if raising money from a venture investor makes sense for your business. In this first of a 3-part series, which originally aired as YouTube videos, a16z M...
07.04.2019 a16z Podcast: Beyond Software, to Talent and Culture with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous episodes featuring Andr...
07.04.2019 a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, Again with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous episodes featuri...

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a16z Podcast episodes:

The Truth about 1000 True Fans + the Price of Our Attention

Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating

What's Next for the Internet?

Controlling AI

Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health

On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation

Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future

What to Know about CFIUS

Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt?

Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want

The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape

Direct Listings, Myths and Facts

The Stories and Code of Culture Change

Of Container Ships, Supply Chains, and Retail

Nursing Today, From the Bedside and Beyond

How We Podcast

Brand Building Ideas… and People

Come for the Games, Stay for the Party

AI in B2B

Free Software and Open Source Business

Of Emojis and Innovation

The Environment, Capitalism, Technology

16 Minutes on the News #10: Amazon Healthcare, Oculus VR/AR, Google Quantum Supremacy?

New Business Models for Gaming, Collaboration, Creativity

16 Minutes on the News #9: All the Recent Phone Hacks

a16z Podcast: The Biology of Pain

16 Minutes on the News #8: Apple Camera, Services; Wearables - Where are We

a16z Podcast: How to Pay for Healthcare Based on Health

The Hustler's Guide to the Hair Business

The Hustler's Guide to Getting Paid

The Hustler's Guide to Preschool

Introducing Hustlin' Tech

a16z Podcast: Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan!

a16z Podcast: From the Internet's Past to the Future of Crypto

a16z Podcast: What to Know about FedRAMP

16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment

a16z Podcast: Software has eaten the world...and healthcare is next

16 Minutes on the News #6: Health Claims, Corporate Breaches

16 Minutes on the News #5: Fed Real-time Payments, Death of Retail

16 Minutes on the News: The Opioid Crisis

16 Minutes on the News: Fortnite, Esports, Gaming, and Entertainment

16 Minutes on the News: Mobile Malware, Drug Pricing

a16z Podcast: The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices

16 Minutes on the News: Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

a16z Podcast: How To Get The Most From Your Board

a16z Podcast: How To Raise Money From A Venture Investor

a16z Podcast: How To Understand And Choose A Venture Investor

a16z Podcast: Beyond Software, to Talent and Culture

a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, Again

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