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a16z Podcast: Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-06-13 22:00
a16z Board Partner Steven Sinofsky and Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie discuss findings from a study of the information economy that has been built on cloud and mobile. The findings were based on workflow data collected anonymously from a subset o...
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a16z Podcast: The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-06-06 19:13
The announcement by Apple of its new programming language Swift is prompting developers to consider yet again how to tailor their efforts in the battle between iOS and Android. Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky discuss the questionable history of cr...
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a16z Podcast: The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-06-03 00:24
Benedict Evans is a veteran of Apple’s big events and puts all the announcements and demos into one of three categories: 1) all the cool incremental improvements to the Apple operating systems; 2) the tent-pole features that Apple likes to build mark...
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a16z Podcast: You Just Thought You Were Building a Software Company. It's a Community.
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-05-30 22:50
For Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to his online community to make it happen. He's organized political campaigns, made documentary films,...
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a16z Podcast: Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-05-20 13:26
Optimizely is a superb example of the democratization of software development. You don't need an engineering degree to fire up Optimizely and start testing how design changes on your website -- down to the pixel level -- affect things like time on s...
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a16z Podcast: The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-05-15 23:36
“At a moment of great concern about inequality, now comes a learned tome proclaiming the gravity of the inequality problem,” says Larry Summers in a conversation with Andreessen Horowitz’s Balaji Srinivasan. “It’s a stunning thing, and it must reflec...
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a16z Podcast: Demystifying Venture Capital
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-05-02 23:33
What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad, Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee, Aspect Ventures' Theresia Gouw, Intel Capital veteran and UPWARD founder Li...
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a16z Podcast: When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-04-30 23:24
Computing is in the midst of a transformation that puts your future device purchases up for grabs. It’s a safe bet that everyone will have a phone, and as the last holdouts switch over, that will inevitably mean a smartphone. But when your PC finally...
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a16z Podcast: Apple and the Fate of Tablets
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-04-25 00:19
Apple’s recent earnings sent the stock soaring. What drove that investor exuberance had everything to do with iPhone sales (and the China market), and very little to do with the iPad – the sales of which were essentially flat over the past year. Chri...
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a16z Podcast: The Future Of Television
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-04-18 19:23
Can technology companies show up and disrupt television with an onslaught of new gizmos and services, or is content still the controlling factor? What will it take in terms of money, business model and time to upend the TV model that has stubbornly p...
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a16z Podcast: Engineering a Revolution at Work
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-04-10 23:39
From file cabinets to typewriters, spreadsheets and word processing the tools we use for work change not only what we do, but the culture of our workplace. Steven Sinofsky, a veteran of building software tools for productivity, discusses the latest r...
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a16z Podcast: China and Tech
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-30 01:26
China has been a tough market to crack for U.S. internet companies. One of the key reasons is China has its own crop of hugely successful and highly innovative companies. Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon, Connie Chan and Benedict Evans highlight the...
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a16z Podcast: Oculus and the (Mind-Blowing) Reality of Virtual Reality
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-28 19:22
Up until now virtual reality has been a disappointment for all those people pining for their own personal holodeck. But advances in the components required to create a truly immersive digital 3D experience have finally broken through much of what has...
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a16z Podcast: The Rise of Full Stack Startups
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-27 20:31
Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing companies in that industry. The new approach is to build a complete, end-to-end product or service that by...
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a16z Podcast: Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-24 22:04
The mobile experience is still in its 1995 Yahoo phase, a sea of apps and websites without an easy way to find what you want and need on your smartphone. What will be mobile’s version of PageRank, the algorithm that made the web manageable? What is t...
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a16z Podcast: Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-21 22:36
There is a recurring theme that the tech industry is busy cranking out fluffy social apps rather than hardcore technology. Not the case, say Chris Dixon, Benedict Evans and Balaji Srinivasan. Not only are tech entrepreneurs going after the deficienci...
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a16z Podcast: The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-20 21:32
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the state of the Bitcoin ecosystem now that the Mt. Gox dust has settled. What's next in crypto-currency, and a theory on Bitcoin creator Satoshi (not Dorian) Nakamoto. ...
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a16z Podcast: Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
From 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-13 22:08
Apple and Google won the mobile OS war, but the next war – to build big businesses on top of Android and iOS – is just beginning. Andreessen Horowitz Partner Benedict Evans untangles what the next phase of mobile means for entrepreneurs, Apple and Go...