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a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-02-12 04:16
with Chris Burniske (@cburniske), Joel Monegro (@jmonegro), Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) When designing cryptonetworks -- really, emerging economies -- how do we avoid some of the monetary and fiscal policy failings of ...
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a16z Podcast: Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and CryptonetworksFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-02-10 05:34
with Phil Daian (@phildaian) and Ali Yahya (@ali01) Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of social systems... including blockchains. It's the natural human tendency for how to organize ...
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a16z Podcast: Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-02-03 03:21
with Jyoti Bansal (@jyotibansalsf), Peter Levine, Satish Talluri (@satishtalluri), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) One of the toughest challenges for founders -- and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over ...
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a16z Podcast: Stories and Lessons in Enterprise SalesFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-30 00:19
with Mark Leslie (@mleslie45) and Peter Levine What does it actually take to win at enterprise sales? In this episode, Mark Leslie, former CEO and chairman and founding team member of Veritas Software, and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School ...
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a16z Podcast: Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the EnterpriseFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-30 00:18
with Peter Levine, Bob Tinker, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) For consumer companies, often when the holy grail of product-market fit is achieved, the company takes off: magic happens, growth unlocks. Enterprise B2B companies face a different c...
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a16z Podcast: Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure CancerFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-26 20:48
Veterinary oncology can inform human oncology, and vice versa -- providing a better model for looking at drug performance, interrelationships, and more. Especially when you add in data (there's no "doggy HIPAA!") and networks to get a "living laborat...
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a16z Podcast: The Business of CybercrimeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-17 23:32
with Joel de la Garza, Jonathan Lusthaus, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of the cybercriminal as lone wolf or hobby hacker is no longer much of a reality. Instead, the business of cybercrime looks a lot more just like that -- a large, g...
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a16z Podcast: Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and BeyondFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-17 02:34
with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) puts the latest and greatest developments in consumer technology on display in Vegas. But beyond the excitement and the hype, what's ...
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a16z Podcast: Dark Data in HealthcareFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-16 03:38
with Susannah Fox (@susannahfox), Anil Sethi (@anilsethiusa / @ciitizencorp), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The problem of "dark data" in healthcare isn't just a feel-good empowerment thing, but a structural issue that leads...
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a16z Podcast: The Science and Business of Innovative MedicinesFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-14 04:57
with Vas Narasimhan (@vasnarasimhan), Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) On average, only 1 out of 20 medicines works when we actually bring them into the human body, and these rates of success haven'...
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a16z Podcast: All About Synthetic BiologyFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-11 20:42
with James J. Collins, Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) The idea of 'designing biology' -- once science fiction -- has over the last 20 years become just... science. In this episode, a16z bio general partner Vijay Pande ...
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a16z Podcast: What’s Next for Marketplace Startups (Hint: Services)From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2019-01-09 05:40
The past and future of marketplace startups -- where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers and sellers of, well, just about everything, we’ve been waiting for 100 other at-scale marketplaces for everything else, inc...
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a16z Podcast: Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler CowenFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-29 19:00
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen) This episode of the a16z Podcast features the rare combination of a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in conversation, together, with economist Ty...
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a16z Podcast: How the Internet HappenedFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-24 20:09
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com boom, to the applications built on top of it and the entrepreneurs behind them. General partner Chris...
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a16z Podcast: All About StablecoinsFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-21 05:51
with Andy Milenius (@realzandy), Jesse Walden (@jessewldn), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important concept of debt: It’s what allows us to “time travel” and build toward the future — growing...
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a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total HealthFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-21 00:07
with Bernard J. Tyson (@bernardjtyson) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage with more than 22,000 physicians c...
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a16z Podcast: Building Crypto, from Vision to RealityFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-12-18 02:37
with Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Where are we, really, right now -- in terms of what we can/ can't do with crypto today? And what will it take to get from vision to mainstream reality? This e...
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a16z Podcast: On Marrying Entertainment and TechnologyFrom 🇺🇸 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 RobotsFrom 🇺🇸 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 & RobotsFrom 🇺🇸 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...