Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
Episode 106
One of the most active and fastest growing open source big data cluster computing projects is Apache Spark, which was originally developed at U.C. Be…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Investing in Communities
Episode 105
Investing to make a return both financial AND societal isn't new, but the opportunities to reach and build businesses in communities that have been u…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
Episode 104
"This time is different." But it's always different! So what's going on now in the public markets? Why does this even matter? For one thing, tech mar…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
Episode 103
Pick your metaphor: Smartphones are "remote controls" for the physical world, or perhaps, as Steve Cheney argues, they're "cursors for the physical w…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
Episode 102
Every meeting a busy founder takes is time away from building the company. So it’s understandable why engaging corporate development groups is believ…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
Episode 101
Apple’s annual developer conference is cranking away in San Francisco, and a16z’s Benedict Evans examines the latest from the world’s most valuable c…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
Episode 100
Is the Apple Watch breaking new technological ground, or just another accessory for your iPhone? a16z’s Benedict Evans and Board Partner Steven Sinof…
10 years, 8 months ago
The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale
Episode 99
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of "big data" sets -- but that's not enough for modeling surprise/rare…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Episode 98
with Justin Bailey (@justinbailey12d), Herman Narula (@hermannarula), Tim Schafer (@timoflegend) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)
We know that the gaming i…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
Episode 97
Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an e…
10 years, 8 months ago