🇺🇸 United States Episodes

After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their attention and capital towards? The answer, argues a16z’s Benedict Evans, is the automotive industry. Su...

Abby Martin is an American journalist and former host of "Breaking the Set" for RT America. Check out her work at http://mediaroots.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

Justin Wren is an American MMA fighter. He recently returned from one of his many trips helping the Pygmy people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On August 28th, Justin is fighting in Bellator 141 to help raise more awareness. Learn more here: http://FightFortheForgotten.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe is joined by Aubrey Marcus, Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen, Eddie Bravo, and Tait Fletcher to watch the fights on August 23, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The acclaimed writer describes how he develops his novels, what he expects from reviewers, and why business people should still read fiction.

Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, they weren’t. “There is this swallow-the-red-pill moment that happens,” Marc Andreessen says, “Where ...

Jeff Ross is a comedian, writer, producer, and director also known as the "Roastmaster General" from his work on the Comedy Central Roasts. His latest special "Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live at Brazos County Jail" is available now on iTunes or http://www.cc.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about getting them anyway? And in the middle of that mental and physical storm, how do you find the thing that you and only you were meant to do -- and start bu...

Jeff Novitzky is the VP of athlete health and performance for the UFC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever more critical. Whether it’s for dating or sending money, you want to trust that not only are you interacting with the person you think you are, but th...

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

This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton, the story of the group N.W.A. that revolutionized music and pop culture. The Q&A features Ice Cube, producer,...

When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to go into it advocating for yourself and trying to convince people that you're a good operator, as you might in a job interview. So...

Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author of "Just Listen," explains how.

Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

Mark Bell is an elite powerlifter and owner of Team Super Training Gym in Sacramento, CA. Chris Bell is a writer, director, and filmmaker known for the documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" and his new documentary called "Prescription Thugs" premieres in the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing & Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption and author of "The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption" and "The Consuming Instinct" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe is joined by Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen, and Eddie Bravo to watch the fights on August 8, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices