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It's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to networks and others don't. BoardList -- more of a talent marketplace than a "list" per se -- is an effort to ...

Remi Warren is a hunter, adventurer, and videographer. His show "Apex Predator" is on the Outdoor Channel and available at http://apexpredator.tv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Wayne Parr is an Australian middleweight kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Boonchu Gym in Gold Coast, Queensland. He is a 10-time World Champion in Muay Thai and runner up in The Contender Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave Rubin is a stand-up comedian, talk show host, and television personality. He is the creator and host of political comedy talk show The Rubin Report, part of Ora TV and formerly of The Young Turks Network. http://www.youtube.com/rubinreport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a "disturbance...that interrupts an event, activity, or process" and that causes something "to be unable ...

Clay Shirky talks about Xiaomi, the subject of his new book, "Little Rice."

Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to mini computers to PCs. And then came the mobile phone, which, in the form of the smartphone, has dwa...

Wim Hof is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brian Redban is a comedian and the founder of the Deathsquad podcast network available on Spotify under "Deathsquad." http://deathsquad.tv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation and author of "Getting Beyond Better" with Roger Martin.

This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)'s "Belief", which just premiered and airs over seven consecutive nights. This week-long documentary series depicts how people ...

We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would have been hard to imagine. Not so much that the two companies would come together, but that the much smaller Dell would be buying its larger peer EMC....

Ben and David discuss Disney's acquisition of Pixar in 2006. Was it a success? If so, what are the criteria that made it work? What lessons can be learned for other acquisitions in the future?Sponsors:WorkOS: https://bit.ly/workos25Sentry: https://bit.ly/acquiredsentryServiceNow: https://bit.ly/acquiredsnMore Acquired!:Get email updates with hints on next episode and follow-ups from recent episodesJoin the SlackSubscribe to ACQ2Merch Store!© Copyright 2015-2025 ACQ, LLC

Steven Rinella is an outdoorsman, author, and television host. He currently hosts MeatEater on the Sportsman Channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its share of ground-breaking companies (full disclosure: a16z has invested in three of them). So how did ...

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Steven Crowder is an actor, comedian and former contributor for the Fox News Channel. He currently runs his own website and also a podcast called "Louder With Crowder" available on Spotify. - http://louderwithcrowder.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web browser, says Marc Andreessen. That company was Netscape. Andreessen was still at the University of...

Michael Dowd is a former NYPD officer and current ethics consultant. "The Seven Five" is a critically acclaimed documentary made about his time as an officer, and is available for download at - www.themikedowd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is a stream of the world's largest companies coming to Silicon Valley looking for innovation. But how do they find it, and then, how do they bring it back home? a16z's Elizabeth Weil joins this segment of the pod to lay out what the Fortune 500...