Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: You Just Thought You Were Building a Software Company. It's a Community.
Episode 15
For Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to his online community to make it happen. He's org…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Episode 14
Optimizely is a superb example of the democratization of software development. You don't need an engineering degree to fire up Optimizely and start testing how design changes on your website -- down…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
Episode 13
“At a moment of great concern about inequality, now comes a learned tome proclaiming the gravity of the inequality problem,” says Larry Summers in a conversation with Andreessen Horowitz’s Balaji Sri…
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: Demystifying Venture Capital
Episode 12
What do venture capitalists actually do all day? And what is the path that leads to a career investing in startups? Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad, Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee, Aspect Ventures' Theresi…
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: When Your PC Expires, What's Next?
Episode 11
Computing is in the midst of a transformation that puts your future device purchases up for grabs. It’s a safe bet that everyone will have a phone, and as the last holdouts switch over, that will ine…
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Fate of Tablets
Episode 10
Apple’s recent earnings sent the stock soaring. What drove that investor exuberance had everything to do with iPhone sales (and the China market), and very little to do with the iPad – the sales of w…
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Future Of Television
Episode 9
Can technology companies show up and disrupt television with an onslaught of new gizmos and services, or is content still the controlling factor? What will it take in terms of money, business model a…
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
a16z Podcast: Engineering a Revolution at Work
Episode 8
From file cabinets to typewriters, spreadsheets and word processing the tools we use for work change not only what we do, but the culture of our workplace. Steven Sinofsky, a veteran of building soft…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: China and Tech
Episode 7
China has been a tough market to crack for U.S. internet companies. One of the key reasons is China has its own crop of hugely successful and highly innovative companies. Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris …
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
a16z Podcast: Oculus and the (Mind-Blowing) Reality of Virtual Reality
Episode 6
Up until now virtual reality has been a disappointment for all those people pining for their own personal holodeck. But advances in the components required to create a truly immersive digital 3D expe…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago