Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
Episode 45
It’s well understood that bitcoin can be used to buy and sell things/services, and the ecosystem of people accepting the cryptocurrency as payment is…
11 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
Episode 44
What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company an…
11 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
Episode 43
It's a myth that startups happen in isolation. Those legendary two people in a garage are often building on the deep and basic research -- long funde…
11 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
Episode 42
Jonah Peretti is building BuzzFeed to “inform, inspire and entertain” in a world where news and entertainment is increasingly passed around on social…
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Reinventing Media
Episode 41
Software, and the billions of transistors that power it, has brought about massive change to all kinds of industries, but none more so than the news …
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment -- Four Steps for Habit-Forming Products
Episode 40
Nir Eyal and Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover, the authors of "Hooked, How to Build Habit-Forming Products," discuss the theory and practice of the book as…
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
Episode 39
Have we as a culture become expert at globalizing industries, but are we failing when it comes to truly world-changing technological breakthroughs? I…
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
Episode 38
NFC (near field communication) technology has been around for about a decade, and with the exception of transit cards mostly outside the United State…
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
Episode 37
It’s a problem most entrepreneurs would love to face, a massive valuation offer from investors for the startup they’ve been killing themselves over. …
11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
Episode 36
Profitless Ponzi scheme, or the greatest company in the world led by an absolute genius? Amazon is a polarizing company. Quarter after quarter, as it…
11 years, 5 months ago