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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
a16z 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago