Podcast Episodes
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Episode 238
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". S…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
Episode 237
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
Episode 236
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programmi…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Pricing Free
Episode 235
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freemium model…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
Episode 234
"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. But why is this so key and yet so hard for many technical fou…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji
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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago