Podcast Episodes

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.

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Published on 2 weeks ago

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

Episode 981

Russ Fradin sold his first company for $300M. He’s back in the arena with Larridin, helping companies measure just how successful their AI actually is.

In this episode, Russ sits down with a16z Genera…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

How 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 platform across models, pricing, and infrastructu…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days 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 Manhattan Project with closed models, Chinese developers q…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days 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 track record into the most talked-about firm in v…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days 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 empires?

In this conversation with Mark Halperin fro…

Published on 3 weeks 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, and what 30% GDP growth actually looks like. They…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day 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" investors demanded desktop, a brand that made finance f…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days 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 them is finally being rebuilt. 

Gene Ludwig ran the O…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days 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 about how fast the ground moved beneath Silicon Valley…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago