Podcast Episodes
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Episode 233
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary mov…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Episode 232
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially softwa…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
Episode 231
Seemingly overnight, a single game -- Pokémon Go -- has taken people by storm. But it's a game that was technically years in the making, building on …
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Getting Network Effects
Episode 230
One of the biggest misconceptions around network effects (which are one of the key dynamics behind many successful and highly defensible software com…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
Episode 229
We already know that the government is one of the largest IT buyers, but in many ways it is also an IT builder. Especially for areas where the govern…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World
Episode 228
"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago, and of t…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
Episode 227
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an out…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
Episode 226
with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)
Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, s…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
Episode 225
How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future" for fintech? We're not quite there yet, argued Buz…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
Episode 224
Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Ster…
9 years, 10 months ago