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a16z Podcast: On Marrying Entertainment and Technology
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-05 02:11
with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman (@MegWhitman), and Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) In this episode of the a16z Podcast, based on a discussion that took place at our annual a16z Summit, Marc Andreessen interviews Jeffrey Katzenberg -- formerly CEO and...
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a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-11-21 15:40
with Boris Sofman (@bsofman), Dave Touretzky (@DaveTouretzky), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) We're just now beginning to truly see the the first 'real' robots in the home, from Roombas to toys to companions to... well, much more. How are humans...
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a16z Podcast: Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-11-19 18:44
with Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Is it possible that ancient Greeks and Romans dreamed of technological innovations like robots and artificial intelligence millennia before those technologies became realities? In this...
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a16z Podcast: M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-11-17 01:42
with Stephanie Cohen and Martin Casado (@martin_casado) As chief strategy officer of Goldman Sachs (and former global head of financial sponsors M&A), Stephanie Cohen has seen it all when it comes to the ins and outs of M&A. And what it means to in...
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a16z Podcast: Automation + Work, Human + Machine
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-11-05 16:25
with Prasad Akella, Paul Daughtery (@pauldaugh) and Frank Chen (@withfries2) What is different on that factory floor from Henry Ford to today? In this conversation, Prasad Akella, Founder and CEO of Drishti; Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Inno...
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a16z Podcast: Eyeballs on the Game
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-10-19 03:53
with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Yogi Roth (@YogiRoth), Zack Weiner and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For decades, the increasing value of sports teams, rights, licenses and more have been fueled by sports media. But dollars follow eyeballs, and ey...
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a16z Podcast: From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-10-08 06:21
The period from 2000-2016 was one of the best of times and worst of times for tech and the Valley (dotcom, financial crisis, Google IPO, Facebook founded, unprecedented growth, and so on), and John Hennessy -- current chairman of Alphabet, also on th...
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a16z Podcast: How to Manage a PR Agency
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-27 04:36
with Shannon (Stubo) Brayton (@sstubo), Margit Wennmachers (@wennmachers), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the company building topics that’s surprisingly mystifying is PR -- and only surprising since so much of the strategy and tactics behind pub...
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a16z Podcast: New Upstarts in an Old Industry
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-25 20:12
with Michael Ovitz (@michaelovitz), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) When Michael Ovitz co-founded the Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), he turned a number of the entertainment industry's well-entren...
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a16z Podcast: Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-24 00:47
with Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's all sorts of interesting tech trends happening right now, including AI, VR/AR, self-driving cars and drones (as well as interesting stuff happening in verticals like healthcare and fin...
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a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-17 22:55
with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofsky (@SteveSi) In another of our hallway conversation episodes, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How disruptive is Tesl...
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a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-14 00:44
with Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) and Steven Sinofksy (@StevenSi) In this hallway-style conversation episode of the a16z Podcast, Benedict Evans and a16z board partner Steven Sinofsky discuss Apple’s September 2018 keynote event and share their t...
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a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-08 18:12
with Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) There's a lot of research and writing out there on "thinking fast" -- the short-term, gut, instinctual decisions we make, biases we have, and heuristics we use ...
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a16z Podcast: The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-09-04 19:35
with Jeff Jordan (@Jeff_Jordan), Cal Turner Jr., and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The "death of retail" in the face of e-commerce and tech disruption is a very real phenomenon, but what about the flip side of that story -- that is, retail thriving...
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a16z Podcast: When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-25 18:44
with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Russ Heddleston (@rheddleston), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) What happens when the bottoms up, organic growth usually associated with consumer companies starts to go.... enterpris...
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a16z Podcast: Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-20 16:39
with Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel), Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) The open source movement enabled so much in computing, including the collaborative building of libraries -- that is, building blocks of code that developers...
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a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-09 15:03
with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Once you have users, how do you keep them engaged, retain them, and even "resurrect" or re-engage them? That's the focus of this episode of the a16z Podcast, whic...
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a16z Podcast: The Basics of Growth 1 -- User Acquisition
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-09 05:23
with Andrew Chen (@andrewchen), Jeff Jordan (@jeff_jordan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Growth is one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs building startups of all kinds (and especially consumer ones) -- but how does one go beyond a mi...
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a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-03 21:37
with Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) and Sharon Chang (@sychang) What does it really take to start a startup (or work at one)? In this episode of the a16z Podcast -- based on a Q&A with Ben Horowitz as part of an event hosted by a16z's Technical Talent a...
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a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-01 02:36
with Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) Cryptonetworks are often compared to firms, people, or even coral reefs -- but, observes a16z crypto partner Ali Yahya, they might be mu...