Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuilding the First CAR T Company
Episode 519
with @OzAzamTmunity1, @JorgeCondeBio, and @omnivorousread
CAR T therapy, the groundbreaking new medicines that uses engineered T-cells to attack cance…
6 years ago
Rebel Talent
Episode 518
When we think about rebellious behavior in the context of organizations and companies, we tend to think of rebels as trouble-makers, rabble-rousers; …
6 years, 1 month ago
All about the Coronavirus
Episode 517
This episode of 16 Minutes on the news from a16z is all about the recent coronavirus outbreak -- or rather, a new type of coronavirus called 2019-nCo…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Truth about 1000 True Fans + Pricing Our Attention
Episode 516
The idea of "1000 true fans" -- first proposed by Kevin Kelly in 2008 and later updated for Tools of Titans -- argued that to be a successful creator…
6 years, 1 month ago
Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
Episode 515
We've been financing good writing with bad advertising -- and "attention monsters" (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what happens when the te…
6 years, 1 month ago
What's Next for the Internet?
Episode 514
How can we evolve the web for a better future? Has the web become a mature platform — or are we still in the early days of knowing what it can do and…
6 years, 1 month ago
Controlling AI
Episode 513
AI can do a lot of specific tasks as well as, or even better than, humans can — for example, it can more accurately classify images, more efficiently…
6 years, 1 month ago
Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health
Episode 512
The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a …
6 years, 1 month ago
On Pharma Trends and Big Company Innovation
Episode 511
How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation? How does an enterprise at s…
6 years, 1 month ago
Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?
Episode 510
This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospec…
6 years, 1 month ago