Podcast Episodes
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Episode 86
If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, the question for individuals and startup teams alik…
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Getting Security Right Isn’t as Hard as You Think (But the Effort Never Ends)
Episode 85
The paradox of security is we pretty much know what we are supposed to do most of the time -- but we don’t do it. If you examine all the recent high …
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
Episode 84
Silicon Valley and the U.S. Department of Defense have had a long history of partnership -- including the government funding R&D that was commerciali…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
Episode 83
When (now) two-year-old startup Zenefits was banned in Utah because it offered its HR management software for free, CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad …
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Episode 82
Bitcoin has not been easy for Wall Street and other traditional financial centers to wrap their collective heads around, let alone take seriously. Bu…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
Episode 81
It seems like we hear about corporate (not to mention consumer) hacks in the news every week. Is this something new, or just a continuation of old pa…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Tackling Senior Care with Help from Technology
Episode 80
It is something we all face -- the prospect of taking care of a parent (or two) when they can't quite take care of themselves. For Seth Sternberg, pa…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Messaging is the Medium
Episode 79
The potential to turn messaging into a platform is driving much of the excitement in mobile, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. It's a platform through whic…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back -- with Marc Andreessen
Episode 78
Cyber attacks are growing in number and impact, and the reason is simple: there's more of value (and more vectors to) steal in our increasingly virtu…
10 years, 10 months ago
a16z Podcast: How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Episode 77
As the CEO of a startup your board is a critical tool in helping your company grow; the board is there to make you a better CEO. (Or at least it shou…
10 years, 11 months ago