Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: The Micro and Macro of Mobile
Episode 25
Apple during its most recent quarter reported growing app store sales and flat iPad sales. Where do tablets go from here, especially in light of the Apple and IBM partnership announced? How does the …
Published on 11 years, 4 months ago
a16z Podcast: Government Transparency Powered by Software
Episode 24
What if we could tap into our government with the same speed and ease as our smartphones and search? Can technology make a difference in how government operates, and how we citizens interact with it?…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Protecting Your Company from Itself: Why You Need HR
Episode 23
One of the ways to damage a fast-growing startup is to not have an HR person. But when is the right time to bring someone on? What qualities should you look for? How can you preserve the company cult…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
Episode 22
Managing enterprise networks with thousands of users and endpoints has been hard enough. Now that large enterprise networks routinely include hundreds of thousands of nodes it’s amazingly difficult a…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
Episode 21
The Google I/O keynote was epic in at least one respect, length. For three hours Google laid out the near horizon for all things Google. This included the next version of Android; a new platform for …
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Datacenter of the Future
Episode 20
The datacenter has long been -- there's no nice way to put this -- a bit of a snoozer. Expensive boxes running expensive software. No more, says a16z General Partner Peter Levine. Along with Chris Di…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16zPodcast: People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities -- Groceries
Episode 19
People Marketplaces are a lot like eBay -- connecting buyer and seller -- but for services, says a16z General Partner Jeff Jordan. These two-sided marketplaces are cropping up across the economy, fr…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
a16z Podcast: Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
Episode 18
a16z Board Partner Steven Sinofsky and Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie discuss findings from a study of the information economy that has been built on cloud and mobile. The findings were based on …
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
Episode 17
The announcement by Apple of its new programming language Swift is prompting developers to consider yet again how to tailor their efforts in the battle between iOS and Android. Benedict Evans and Ste…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
Episode 16
Benedict Evans is a veteran of Apple’s big events and puts all the announcements and demos into one of three categories: 1) all the cool incremental improvements to the Apple operating systems; 2) th…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago