Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
Episode 153
There's a "game" being played right now among lawmakers and tech companies around policy issues, and as tech touches everything, everyone has to play…
10 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
Episode 152
Telepresence. It's an ugly, outdated word for an attractive and current/ emerging phenomenon where people can work from anywhere, anytime. It's techn…
10 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: 'The Most Boring Yet Valuable' 20 Minutes, All About Board Minutes
Episode 151
"The most boring yet valuable podcast in a16z history" -- he (our guest Joe Grundfest) said it, not we!
That’s because in this episode of the a16z Po…
10 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Boards and the Power of Networks
Episode 150
It's easy to argue for "choosing possibility" when it comes to addressing diversity and inclusion in tech when certain people have access to networks…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Episode 149
Disruption is such an overused buzzword. But the word itself does have meaning: As defined by the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries, it is a "d…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: What Comes After the Smartphone
Episode 148
Technology is a progression of new ideas and new platforms gobbling up the one that came before. In the world of computers we went from mainframes to…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: Belief -- An Interview with Oprah Winfrey
Episode 147
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)'s "Belief", which just pr…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
Episode 146
We just witnessed the largest acquisition in tech history, and before Dell made it happen, it would have been hard to imagine. Not so much that the t…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
Episode 145
The place where Apache Spark was born, UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has not just created a major open source software platform, it’s spun out more than its s…
10 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Role of Academia in the Startup World
Episode 144
Getting denied another round of NSF funding in the early days of Mosaic turned out to be a huge catalyst to start a company around the fledgling web …
10 years, 6 months ago