Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBen Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Episode 973
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything abou…
3 months, 1 week ago
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Episode 972
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation w…
3 months, 1 week ago
Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
Episode 970
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the l…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li
Episode 969
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Episode 968
The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years.
Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket CEO) ex…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Episode 967
Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR witho…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Episode 966
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever b…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'
Episode 965
The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
Episode 964
Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without unde…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Cure All Disease
Episode 963
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg join a16z’s Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala to share how the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is buil…
3 months, 2 weeks ago