Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Episode 218
"We really want Apple here... Would you please call Tim Cook?"
That's just one of the things Penny Pritzker, the 38th Secretary of Commerce has heard…
10 years ago
a16z Podcast: Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
Episode 217
In many ways, managing startups is about managing uncertainty: in product, market, and... people. So what happens when changes in the business requir…
10 years ago
a16z 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…
10 years 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…
10 years, 1 month 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…
10 years, 1 month 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…
10 years, 1 month 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,…
10 years, 1 month 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…
10 years, 1 month 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…
10 years, 1 month 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…
10 years, 1 month ago