Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Episode 216
There's no question automation is taking over more and more aspects of work and some jobs altogether. But we're now entering a "third era" of automat…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
Episode 215
Innovation or invention? Platform or app? Vertical or horizontal? Strategy or tactic? Does the smartphone eat VR? And (not to get all existential abo…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform
Episode 214
One of the most important lessons of the internet age is what happens when we give people -- including companies, developers, engineers, hobbyists, a…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Cloud and The Public Sector
Episode 213
It almost seems like gospel -- or at least a given -- today for startups to embrace the cloud. Services like AWS have powered an entire generation of…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Art of the Regulatory Hack
Episode 212
If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problems -- like health, energy, transportation, cities,…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
Episode 211
Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and makes perfect sense in hindsight. This was especially…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
Episode 210
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and b…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
Episode 209
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development platform, crypto…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
Episode 208
So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterparts, which makes it easier to figure out how to …
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
Episode 207
When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions:
It’s just a big iPhone I’ll never carry a laptop againBoth wer…
9 years, 10 months ago