Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
Episode 980
In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its…
5 months ago
Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America's Future
Episode 979
Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhatta…
5 months ago
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
Episode 978
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Margit Wennmachers—the woman who turned two unknown entrepreneurs with $300 million and zero investing…
5 months, 1 week ago
How Marc Andreessen Actually Uses AI
Episode 977
Half a billion people can access the world’s best AI on their phone. So why are most using it to write emails while only some are using it to build e…
5 months, 1 week ago
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
Episode 976
Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years,…
5 months, 1 week ago
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Episode 975
Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" inves…
5 months, 1 week ago
Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig
Episode 974
The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved th…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Episode 973
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything abou…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Episode 972
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation w…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
Episode 970
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the l…
5 months, 2 weeks ago