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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Developers as Creatives

01.13.2021

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). ...

a16z Podcast episodes:

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 for Creators: From 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 ...
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 ...

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a16z Podcast episodes:

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 for Creators: From 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

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

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