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Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?
Episode 576
Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performa…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare
Episode 575
"Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)" by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018.
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5 years, 9 months ago
When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
Episode 574
"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015.
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5 years, 9 months ago
Every Company Is a Fintech Company
Episode 573
"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.
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5 years, 9 months ago
Read-Alouds, Continued
Episode 572
Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podca…
5 years, 9 months ago
Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
Episode 571
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernst…
5 years, 10 months ago
Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
Episode 570
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on vi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial
Episode 569
In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescriptio…
5 years, 10 months ago
Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You
Episode 568
Gross margins are essentially a company's revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers, and…
5 years, 10 months ago
Building Products for Power Users
Episode 567
As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and a…
5 years, 10 months ago