🇺🇸 United States Episodes

Profitless Ponzi scheme, or the greatest company in the world led by an absolute genius? Amazon is a polarizing company. Quarter after quarter, as it grows ever larger gobbling up categories and adding businesses, Amazon manages to produce exactly no...

Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent's powerful economic position is unsustainable.​

Tony Hinchcliffe is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Tony also hosts his own podcasts called "Kill Tony" with Brian Redban, and it's available at http://Deathsquad.tv and on Spotify under "Deathsquad". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Given that physical retail is expensive, what’s the right distribution mix for startups? In this podcast with Tristan Walker (who is building health and beauty brand Walker & Company from scratch), we hear Ron Johnson's lessons learned from arguably ...

Dom Irrera is a stand up comedian, and also hosts his own podcast called "Dom Irrera Live from The Laugh Factory" available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His latest book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Teenage siblings Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian from Atlanta, Georgia join Ben Horowitz for a discussion about the motivation and origins of their new app, Five-O. In the aftermath of the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, the young developers built Five-...

Scott Berinato, senior editor at Harvard Business Review, on how companies benefit from transparency about customer data.

Greg Fitzsimmons is an American stand-up comedian. He also hosts his own podcast "FitzDog Radio" available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer. Currently he is the president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The five-year anniversary segment with a16z founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen picks up with a discussion of Clayton Christensen's theories around disruption. Why Christensen's thinking is very much on the mark today, and how his theories help...

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

Around the firm we use “software eats the world” as a guide for how technology will impact every industry and every person – from education to healthcare and government. As a16z marks its five-year anniversary, we turned to the fellow who came up wit...

Cara Santa Maria is a science communicator, writer, producer and television personality. Check out her podcast "Talk Nerdy" on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.

Joe Quirk is a speaker, author, and director of communications at the Seasteading Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jim Barksdale in the run-up to the Netscape IPO told potential investors that you can make money in software in two ways: bundling and unbundling. Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky revisit that thesis in the context of a mobile app world -- how Fac...

David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.

Robin Black is an MMA analyst and color commentator for Fight Network and was also the lead singer of Canadian Glam Rock band Robin Black & the Intergalactic Rock Stars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scroobius Pip is a UK spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist. Check out his "Distraction Pieces Podcast" available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices