Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
Episode 314
There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the who (the bankers, the desired institutional investors); the what (the pri…
8 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
Episode 313
Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists trying to resurrect (or rather, "rewild") an Ice Age (aka Pleistocene era)…
8 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
Episode 312
In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does popularity -- or good product design, for that matter -- cross over from …
8 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
Episode 311
This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes of economics/historian/journalist Marc Levinson's books -- from An Extra…
8 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
Episode 310
A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shifts in classic computing before it, it begins -- not ends -- with The C…
8 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds
Episode 309
Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon? Not yet, argue Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfs…
8 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech
Episode 308
What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" and making arrangements in "smoke-filled back rooms”? It's not like that anym…
8 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
Episode 307
"We're always fighting the last war" -- that's a phrase historians like to use because policymakers and others tend to be so focused on the threats t…
8 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Taking the ‘Cyber’ Out of Cybersecurity
Episode 306
Nearly every cybersecurity discussion/presentation follows this formula: We don’t know what we’re doing; the bad guys are getting smarter; our defens…
8 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Episode 305
When individuals gain the abilities that only nation states once had, how do we put cyber threats in perspective for policymakers -- without unduly "…
8 years, 10 months ago