Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: Getting That First Board Seat
Episode 123
When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to go into it advocating for yo…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Is It Possible to Achieve Equitable Equity for Startup Employees?
Episode 122
There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or …
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Compensation Isn’t About Paying the Most, It’s About Being Consistent
Episode 121
The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best people is compensation. It seems straightforward, but …
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Episode 120
There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questi…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
Episode 119
Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech wo…
10 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Episode 118
Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what…
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: These Girls Code
Episode 117
We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovatio…
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Why Every Business is in the Data Business
Episode 116
It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven compa…
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science
Episode 115
Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due…
10 years, 9 months ago
a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big
Episode 114
Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big a…
10 years, 9 months ago