Podcast Episodes

Dwarkesh and Ilya Sutskever on What Comes After Scaling

Episode 991

AI models feel smarter than their real-world impact. They ace benchmarks, yet still struggle with reliability, strange bugs, and shallow generalization. Why is there such a gap between what they can …

Published on 17 hours ago

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

Episode 990

AI is reshaping the tech landscape, but a big question remains: is this just another platform shift, or something closer to electricity or computing in scale and impact? Some industries may be transf…

Published on 3 days, 9 hours ago

The Inside Story of Growth Investing at a16z

Episode 989

This episode is a special replay of David George’s conversation with Harry Stebbings on 20VC. David is a General Partner on a16z’s growth team, and in this discussion he breaks down how he thinks abo…

Published on 3 days, 23 hours ago

How the Best CEOs Delegate

Episode 988

Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious people with world-class personal assistants. Today …

Published on 5 days, 10 hours ago

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

Episode 987

Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.

AI coding is already actively changing how software gets built.

a16z Infra Partners Yoko Li and Gui…

Published on 6 days, 17 hours ago

The 80-Year Bet: Why Naveen Rao Is Rebuilding the Computer from Scratch

Episode 986

Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously, Naveen led AI at Databricks and founded …

Published on 1 week ago

What Comes After ChatGPT? The Mother of ImageNet Predicts The Future

Episode 985

Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

How AI Created the Fastest Product Cycle in History

Episode 984

Recently, a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joined Ollie Forsyth on NEW ECONOMIES. They talked about why consumer tech is surging again, how AI is enabling 100M-user products at unprecedented speed,…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)

Episode 983

a16z General Partners David Haber, Alex Rampell, and Erik Torenberg discuss why 19 out of 20 AI startups building the same thing will die - and why the survivor might charge $20,000 for what used to …

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

How To Lead | Ben Horowitz on My First Million

Episode 982

A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr on My First Million to talk about how to be a great leader.

Resources:

Follow Ben on X: https://x.com/bhorowitz

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Published on 1 week, 6 days ago