Podcast Episodes
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Episode 677
While building and shaping culture is as relevant as ever for startups and companies today, leaders have sought the answers to these questions for hu…
4 years, 1 month ago
On Mentorship and Leadership
Episode 676
Behind many great leaders, you’ll usually find a great mentor. The mentor-mentee relationship is often one of the most important and most fulfilling …
4 years, 1 month ago
Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change
Episode 675
In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology i…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit
Episode 674
In this episode from February 2019, Jyoti Bansal, founding CEO of AppDynamics and co-founder of Unusual Ventures, joins a16z general partner Peter Le…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Fintech Opportunity for Students and Gen Z
Episode 673
This week, student loans are back in the news, with the administration's announcement of a plan to forgive student loan debt for certain kinds of bor…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to Make Better Decisions
Episode 672
Can you get better at decision-making with practice? Many founders, investors, and builders must make many critical decisions, big and small, every d…
4 years, 2 months ago
Learning from Open Source Communities
Episode 671
What can we learn from the evolution of open source communities and how might they be applied to online communities and the creator economy today? Au…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions
Episode 670
Whether it’s moderating a live panel discussion, managing your (virtual) All Hands meeting, or even guiding a cross-functional team to a decision in …
4 years, 3 months ago
Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects
Episode 669
What does the success of TikTok's algorithmically-driven product tell us about the future of creators and the creator economy, product design, and in…
4 years, 3 months ago
From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
Episode 668
In this episode from December 2018, Hennessy, currently the chairman of Alphabet as well as Turing Award-winning computer scientist, joins a16z co-fo…
4 years, 3 months ago