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Back to SearchBig Ideas 2026: The Agentic Interface
Episode 996
AI is moving from chat to action.
In this episode of Big Ideas 2026, we unpack three shifts shaping what comes next for AI products. The change is not…
6 months ago
The Rise, Fall & Reset of The Fintech Industry
Episode 995
Fintech went from a full-blown surge to a near standstill in just two years. At its peak, about 25 percent of all venture dollars were pouring into t…
6 months ago
Do Revenue and Margins Still Matter in AI?
Episode 994
In this episode, we’re sharing a conversation with David George, General Partner at a16z on the firm’s growth investing team. David has been involved…
6 months ago
The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It
Episode 993
What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the …
6 months ago
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Episode 992
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, t…
6 months ago
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 generalizati…
6 months, 1 week 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 …
6 months, 1 week 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 p…
6 months, 1 week 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 softw…
6 months, 1 week 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. Pr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago