Podcast Episodes
Back to Searcha16z Podcast: From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
Episode 242
From the silver age of on-prem software companies like SAP and Siebel Systems to the golden age of enterprise software-as-a-service, we're now seeing…
10 years ago
a16z Podcast: Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
Episode 241
Just as "social networking" is a bland term that doesn't really capture the layers of what happens underneath (and on top of) social networking platf…
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
Episode 240
"Apple isn't just a tech company; it's a tastemaker." Remember the iconic ads of dancing silhouettes in black, with only the headphone wires visible …
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Sleep!
Episode 239
Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is t…
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: All About Microservices
Episode 238
"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". S…
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: It's Complicated
Episode 237
For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex -- they…
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
Episode 236
Bitcoin quickly made its way from a whitepaper to a production network, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. But its scripting/ programmi…
10 years, 1 month ago
a16z Podcast: Pricing Free
Episode 235
Now that we know to price and plan early, price high -- especially for category-creating or "pre-chasm" businesses -- how do we handle freemium model…
10 years, 2 months ago
a16z Podcast: Pricing, Pricing, Pricing
Episode 234
"Raise prices." Regular listeners of our podcast have heard this advice more than once. But why is this so key and yet so hard for many technical fou…
10 years, 2 months ago
a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji
Episode 233
This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary mov…
10 years, 2 months ago