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a16z Podcast: Beyond Software, to Talent and CultureFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-07-04 21:25
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous episodes featuring Andr...
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero Sum, AgainFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-07-04 21:24
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous episodes featuri...
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Software Eating the WorldFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-07-04 21:24
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), Scott Kupor (@skupor), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous ep...
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Disruption TheoryFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-07-04 21:23
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michael Copeland Continuing our 10-year anniversary series since the founding of Andreessen Horowitz (aka "a16z"), we’re resurfacing some of our previous episodes featuring Andreessen Ho...
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a16z Podcast: Entrepreneurs, Then and NowFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-28 17:03
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) A lot in technology -- and venture -- happens in decades. New cycles of technology come and go, including some secular shifts; a new generation of founder...
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a16z Podcast: Damage-free Genome Editing -- Next in CRISPRFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-26 01:12
Two recent scientific journal papers show what's possible when CRISPR moves from cutting DNA tool to a full-fledged platform -- expanding its toolkit for medicine across R&D, therapeutics, and diagnostics: "Transposon-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems dire...
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a16z Podcast: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic FraudFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-25 15:59
Synthetic fraud—yes, it's a thing: a new evolution of consumer fraud that’s been emerging in financial services, to the tune of $1-$2B a year. In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Naftali Harris, co-founder and CEO of Sentilink, which builds techno...
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a16z Podcast: The History and Future of Machine LearningFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-19 04:50
How have we gotten to where were are with machine learning? Where are we going? a16z Operating Partner Frank Chen and Carnegie Mellon professor Tom Mitchell first stroll down memory lane, visiting the major landmarks: the symbolic approach of the 19...
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a16z Podcast: The Politics of TechnologyFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-15 19:58
with Tony Blair (@InstituteGC), Scott Kupor (@skupor), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) If the current pace of tech change is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution — with its tremendous economic growth and lifestyle change ...
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a16z Podcast: AI and Your Doctor, Today and TomorrowFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-13 22:26
with Eric Topol (@EricTopol) and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) Artificial intelligence is coming to the doctor’s office. In this episode, Dr. Eric Topol, cardiologist and chair of innovative medicine at Scripps Research, and a16z’s general partner on th...
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a16z Podcast: 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin KanFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-10 18:09
Want actionable advice from a founder who has built multiple tech companies and has invested the time to be open, introspective, and transparent about lessons learned? In this episode (which originally aired as a YouTube video), a16z General Partner...
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a16z Podcast: Deep Learning for the Life SciencesFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-06 22:47
with Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) and Bharath Ramsundar Deep learning has arrived in the life sciences: every week, it seems, a new published study comes out... with code on top. In this episode, a16z General Partner Vijay Pande and Bharath Ramsundar t...
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a16z Podcast: The Power of Restorative JusticeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-06-03 17:02
with Van Jones (@VanJones68), Shaka Senghor (@ShakaSeghnor), and Chris Lyons (@clyons) True redemption can be hard to come by in our justice system today. And yet, we need it more than ever before. In this episode (based on an event hosted by Andree...
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a16z Podcast: The Economics of Expensive MedicinesFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-30 18:47
with Andrew Lo (@AndrewWLo) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio) The advent of new gene and cell therapies are beginning to approach that holy grail of medicine—that of a possible cure. But they are also more expensive than any medicines ever sold befor...
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a16z Podcast: Collectively Driving ChangeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-27 02:28
with Laurene Powell Jobs (@LaurenePowell) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Laurene Powell Jobs is, among many other things, founder and President of the Emerson Collective -- the social impact firm she founded to drive change and reform through philant...
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a16z Podcast: What Time Is It? From Technical to Product to Sales CEOFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-20 06:42
with David Ulevitch (@davidu) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Since the startup (and founder) journey doesn't go neatly linear from technical to product to sales, tightening one knob (whether engineering or marketing or pricing & packaging) creates slack...
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a16z Podcast: Five Open Problems Toward Building a Blockchain ComputerFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-13 22:26
Do you sometimes wish you had been born in a different decade so you could have worked on the fundamental building blocks of modern computing? How fun, challenging, and fulfilling would it have been to work on semiconductors in the 1950s or Unix in t...
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a16z Podcast: A Guide to Making Data-Based Decisions in Health, Parenting... and LifeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-11 06:14
with Emily Oster (@ProfEmilyOster) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Are chia seeds actually that good for you? Will Vitamin E keep you healthy? Will breastfeeding babies make them smarter? There’s maybe no other arena where understanding what the ...
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a16z Podcast: Innovating in BetsFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-08 02:41
with @annieduke, @pmarca, and @smc90 Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage -- and every individual, whether for themselves or others -- makes countless decisions every day, under conditions of uncertainty. The question is, ar...
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a16z Podcast: Seven Trends in Blockchain ComputingFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-05-07 19:32
In a followup to one of our most popular podcast episodes which originally aired in April 2017 (https://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoins/), a16z Crypto Fund General Partner Chris Dixon returns to talk with Olaf Carlson-Wee of P...