Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity
Episode 254
"We live in a world where we use millions of variables to predict which ad you're going to click on. Whether or not you deserve to get a loan. What m…
9 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
Episode 253
The Industrial Revolution (and period between 1500-1700) was an unprecedented age of technology and economic progress — not unlike today’s, in fact —…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
Episode 252
“If we have instant delivery for our burgers,” says Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo, “we should have it for our medicine.” So while some p…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'
Episode 251
You’ve heard the numbers or some statistic like this: By the year 2050, we’ll need to feed 9.7 billion humans on the planet. Our current production a…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
Episode 250
You've heard a version of this story before: Steve Jobs calls some executive out of the blue to come work for him. Only this time the story turns out…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: What's Next for Technology and National Security?
Episode 249
We live in very interesting times, to say the least -- whether it's a shift in how technology is built and adopted today compared to the past; a chan…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Messages and Movements in Politics AND Business
Episode 248
In business, as in politics, "the movement is the message" -- whether that "movement" is a product that's taking off grassroots-style in an enterpris…
9 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
Episode 247
There have been a number of new device announcements this past month -- from Google’s new Pixel phone (the first time they made their own phone on th…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business
Episode 246
Once we sequenced the human genome, we'd know the cause of -- and therefore be able to help cure -- all diseases... Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,0…
9 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
Episode 245
From glittery reaction gifs modded by grandparents to rage faces on Reddit, stickers (gifs and other layered images) and emotive “biaoqing” have take…
9 years, 10 months ago