Podcast Episodes

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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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 again

Both wer…

10 years ago

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a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain

Episode 206

Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But…

10 years ago

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a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond

Episode 205

So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots!

In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict Evans and Connie Chan -- along with Chris Messin…

10 years ago

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a16z Podcast: Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models

Episode 204

Developers are more than just influencers inside the enterprise -- they're now buyers, too. That's a huge shift from before, when only IT and other d…

10 years ago

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