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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 DisruptionFrom 🇺🇸 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 StoriesFrom 🇺🇸 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!) RetailFrom 🇺🇸 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 EnterpriseFrom 🇺🇸 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 SourceFrom 🇺🇸 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 & RetentionFrom 🇺🇸 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 AcquisitionFrom 🇺🇸 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 SecretsFrom 🇺🇸 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 -- AnalogiesFrom 🇺🇸 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...
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a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building BlocksFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-08-01 02:35
with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Ali Yahya (@ali01), and Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) “Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcomes.” At the end of the day, observes a16z crypto general partner Chris Dixon, Satoshi's whitepaper [the original bitc...
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a16z Podcast: High Growth in Companies (and Tech)From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-20 06:12
with Elad Gil (@eladgil) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's a lot of knowledge out there -- and networks of talent (especially in Silicon Valley) -- on what to do in the early stages of a company, going from 0 to 1, and even in going from 1 to 100......
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a16z Podcast: The Regulatory Landscape for CryptoFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-17 00:27
with Katie Haun (@katie_haun), Robin Weisnman (@robinweisman), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) What’s going on, regulation-wise, in crypto? How should people who want to join a company or build something new in the space think about the regulatory enviro...
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a16z Podcast: Building Companies in Crypto, from People to CodeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-17 00:27
with Tina Bhatnagar (@tinab), Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi), Lily Liu (@calilyliu), and Kim Milosevich (@kimbatronic) Whether it’s sharing the decision-making behind joining a crypto company to the perspectives of a passionate early adopter (or r...
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a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big PictureFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-16 21:26
with Chris Dixon (@cdixon), Elizabeth Stark (@starkness), and Jessica Verrilli (@jess) Why does decentralization matter? This episode of the a16z Podcast -- based on a discussion that first took as part of an “Intro to Crypto” event that Andreessen ...
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a16z Podcast: The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNAFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-13 11:53
with Jorge Conde (@jorgecondebio), David Reich, and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Trying to reconstruct the deep past of ancient humans out of present-day people has until now been like trying to reconstruct a bomb explosion in a room from bits of ...
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a16z Podcast: On Mentors and MenteesFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-12 03:46
with Ken Coleman, Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) Everyone talks about the importance of mentorship in our professional development, whether it's networking to broaden career opportunities or learning from someone mor...
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a16z Podcast: Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and LifeFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-07-06 23:56
with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) The rise of zero-sum thinking -- which has come snapping back recently -- slows and even halts progress, observes Marc Andreessen. Because you're then di...
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a16z Podcast: All Things CompensationFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2018-06-21 22:32
Compensation is a topic near and dear to everyone’s heart… but what does “compensation” fully mean — and what does it include, what doesn’t it include? How do entrepreneurs compete for talent in an intensely competitive environment, while balancing t...