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Episode 283
An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Darden is one of the mathematicians that the book and movie Hidden Figures…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance
Episode 282
As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important.…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
Episode 281
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), thos…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Build Your Personal Brand
Episode 280
Your brand, says head of a16z marketing and Outcast Agency co-founder Margit Wennmachers, is what people say about you when you're not in the room. A…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: The Business of Healthcare
Episode 279
Starbucks supposedly spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. And 20 years ago, says Rajeev Singh, CEO of Accolade, healthcare was 10%…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: The Genetics Of Drug Delivery
Episode 278
In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a presentation at our summit event), Russ Altman, Stanford professor of bioen…
9 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
Episode 277
The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes, even political -- is that we've become too comfortable: matching to ot…
9 years, 2 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Future of... You
Episode 276
Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing their performance, whether in sports or health or …
9 years, 2 months ago
a16z Podcast: Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
Episode 275
Imagine, for a moment, an alternative universe: One where Netflix got disrupted by some other streaming-content company that made its DVD rental busi…
9 years, 2 months ago
a16z Podcast: Brains, Bodies, Minds ... and Techno-Religions
Episode 274
Evolution and technology have allowed our human species to manipulate the physical environment around us -- reshaping fields into cities, redirecting…
9 years, 2 months ago