Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z 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
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, 11 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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 "…
9 years ago
a16z Podcast: Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Episode 304
"Slow down, cowboys" -- that's what Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) said when prosecutors in her office wanted to bring a case against companies…
9 years ago
a16z Podcast: Modernizing Government Services, From Food Stamps to Foster Care
Episode 303
When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of improved procurement, of new infrastructure ... rather than social serv…
9 years ago
a16z Podcast: The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Episode 302
Rules, guidelines, regulations, and “laws” are all sometimes used interchangeably — but what’s legal and what isn’t is far more complex when it comes…
9 years ago
a16z Podcast: The Living Museum
Episode 301
Every industry (for-profit, non-profit, government, private-sector) has been touched by tech, with most trying to lead the charge in order to stay ah…
9 years ago
a16z Podcast: Giving and Getting Feedback -- for Bosses and Employees
Episode 300
There's feedback and there's guidance; there's praise and there's criticism. All of it is important to do better work, but to develop a better and mo…
9 years ago