Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Episode 198
Why are people so fired up about a computer winning yet another game? Whether it's checkers, chess, Jeopardy, or the ancient Chinese game of Go, we g…
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
Episode 197
Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of th…
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: I Reject the Term Viral Video
Episode 196
YouTube star Casey Neistat rejects the term “viral video,” which is strange because he’s had more than his share of internet monsters. To say I want …
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Data Network Effects
Episode 195
If network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that may be especially true of data network effects -- …
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Disruption in Business... and Life
Episode 194
It's not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too.
Or so a…
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
Episode 193
The mobile world has fallen hard for VR, says Benedict Evans. But will virtual reality mean real profit for hardware makers? Evans offers his observa…
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality
Episode 192
Virtual reality is coming fast, and everyone seems to assume that it will be gamers who get to have all the fun first. But there are other applicatio…
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Infrastructure... Is Everything
Episode 191
Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered "boring" because it is so invisible to so many of us. But …
10 years, 3 months ago
a16z Podcast: Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
Episode 190
The principal political binary of the past century was the political 'left versus right'. But in the 21st century the binary has shifted -- the battl…
10 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: 'In the Eye of a Tornado' -- Views on Innovation from China
Episode 189
No matter how one views Xiaomi -- and there are many ways to view it, for better or worse -- one thing is clear: It, and other such companies (like W…
10 years, 4 months ago