Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInnovating While Scaling: Lessons from Amazon
Episode 659
In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr -- in conversation with a16z's Sonal Chokshi -- go beyond the well-k…
4 years, 1 month ago
When Gross Margins Matter
Episode 658
Gross margins–which are essentially a company’s revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customer…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Founder to Investor Journey
Episode 657
This week, we have a special crossover episode from June 2021: Joel Beasley, host of the Modern CTO podcast, interviews a16z general partner David Ul…
4 years, 1 month ago
Inside Apple Software Design
Episode 656
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple …
4 years, 1 month ago
Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
Episode 655
In this re-run from September 2018, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How…
4 years, 2 months ago
Designing a Culture of Reinvention
Episode 654
In this episode from September 2020, originally recorded for the Commonwealth Club of California, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hasting talks about…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Basics of Growth Marketing: Engagement & Retention
Episode 653
After achieving product-market fit and starting to gain users, how do startups then avoid the "leaky bucket" problem of losing users as quickly as th…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Basics of Growth Marketing: User Acquisition
Episode 652
Once known as “growth hacking”, the concept of Growth has now evolved into an entire discipline that spans marketing, product management, user experi…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Great Data Debate
Episode 651
Over a decade after the idea of “big data'' was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all si…
4 years, 3 months ago
Principles for Work and Life
Episode 650
In the face of great uncertainty, how do you make decisions? Can you really apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future, to navigate …
4 years, 3 months ago