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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

There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or by making equity more equitable in other ways; as former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason observed, "When sta...

The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best people is compensation. It seems straightforward, but if you don’t develop a philosophy early around how you are going to compensate all those great employ...

There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questions about whether newer technology -- bitcoin and the underlying blockchain -- could help. One of tho...

Steven Hassan is an American licensed mental health counselor who has written extensively on the subject of cults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Shapiro, author of the "HBR Guide to Leading Teams" and professor at Simmons, on dealing with conflict and other issues.

"Call Me Lucky" is a documentary about the life and traumatic childhood experiences of Boston stand up comedy legend Barry Crimmins that was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Limited release in theaters starts August 7, visit http://callmeluckymovie.com to a screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Ward is the owner of ICON and a designer and creator of coach-built premium automobiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech world. But the smartphone’s dominance is so complete, says a16z’s Benedict Evans, that it’s useful to t...

Josh Zepps is the host of #WeThePeople LIVE, available on Spotify and at http://wtplive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what does make such innovation clusters work? In this segment of the pod a trio of expert guests -- Anna...

We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation coding competition in San Francisco -- to hear about the mobile apps they created, the culture of c...

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans explain how we're "evolving ourselves."