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Back to Searcha16z Podcast: B2B2C
Episode 382
When it comes to B2B2C business models -- which combine both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) -- who really "owns" the custo…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Episode 381
“The rules of the game are different in tech,” argues — and has long argued, despite his views not being accepted at first — W. Brian Arthur, technol…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Oral History Of TrialPay — Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
Episode 380
In this hallway-style conversation (originally recorded as a video), a16z general partner Alex Rampell and Terry Angelos, SVP of Commerce Solutions a…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Shifting Risk Mindsets, From Tech to Bio
Episode 379
What challenges do first-time founders or tech founders encounter when building companies in the bio space, and how do they differ from traditional t…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
Episode 378
with Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)
Signaling and credential inflation -- not learning -- can ex…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Breaking Into Bio
Episode 377
with Atul Butte (@atulbutte), Daphne Koller (@daphnekoller), and Vijay Pande (@vijaypande)
Whether you’re an academic seeking to move out of research…
8 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
Episode 376
with Ray Dalio (@raydalio), Alex Rampell (@arampell), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)
Can one really apply the lessons of history and of the past to the p…
8 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: On Recent Consolidation in the Healthcare Industry
Episode 375
Many of the healthcare headlines lately have been about consolidation in the industry: Walmart and Humana; Aetna and CVS; Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berk…
8 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: Players and Paths for Healthcare Startups
Episode 374
The creation of each new biotechnology enables a tool, a therapy, or a diagnostic: a molecule, a protein, an app, a platform. And the process underne…
8 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
Episode 373
Hypothesis, test, revise -- that's science. Engineering, however, doesn't quite go that way: You have parts you know and understand (like legos), and…
8 years, 6 months ago