Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: The Macro and Micro of Parenting
Episode 324
We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts -- screen time, to code or not to code -- but actually, there's a bigger, macr…
8 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: Competing Against Luck
Episode 323
with Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Steven Levy
In business, mistakes of omission may be just as bad as (if not worse than) mistakes of co…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Engineering Intent
Episode 322
"Young hungry and scrappy" is how Hamilton described his country, and it's how many -- including the guests on this episode -- describe startups... o…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure
Episode 321
What is "infrastructure" actually? In the 19th and 20th century, that usually meant the transportation systems supporting roadways, airports, trains.…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Cash, Growth, and CEO ❤️ CFO
Episode 320
with Ben Horowitz, Scott Kupor, and Caroline Moon
“The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash” [so said Harold Geneen], yet startup …
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
Episode 319
What do disease diagnostics, language learning, and image recognition have in common? All depend on the organization of collective intelligence: data…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Centers of Power, War, and History
Episode 318
with Graham Allison and Matthew Colford
"When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, shit happens." It's true of people, it's true of c…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Strategies and Tactics of Big
Episode 317
What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to their organization, their product planning, their behavior towards cha…
8 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Independents on the Board
Episode 316
with Anne Mitchell, Lars Dalgaard, and Scott Kupor
"Orthogonal thinking" but "shared core values" -- that's what makes an ideal board... especially wh…
8 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
Episode 315
with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky
Modern technology owes much to the introduction of the binary digit or "bit", first proposed by Cla…
8 years, 9 months ago