Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
Episode 246
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,0…
9 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
Episode 245
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have take…
9 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
Episode 244
The most recent Oculus Connect event (the third and largest yet) has been lauded as bringing us closer than ever to the future promised for virtual r…
9 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: Mastering the Game (with David Oyelowo)
Episode 243
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Disney's Queen of Katwe, now in theaters. The movie -…
9 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
Episode 242
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing…
9 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
Episode 241
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platf…
9 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
Episode 240
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires visible …
9 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Sleep!
Episode 239
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is t…
9 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: All About Microservices
Episode 238
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". S…
9 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
Episode 237
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they…
9 years, 6 months ago