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Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement
Episode 521
It's "Marketplaces Week" for us at a16z, thanks to our consumer team releasing a new index of the next industry-defining marketplaces, the Marketplac…
6 years, 4 months ago
Tough Love, Global Diplomacy, and Lessons on Leadership
Episode 520
Susan shares how she learned to leverage the characteristics of her personality early in her career as assistant secretary of state [2:05]
One of the …
6 years, 4 months ago
Building 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago