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Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Episode 66
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, t…
3 months, 1 week ago
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
Episode 65
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LL…
3 months, 1 week ago
TruffleHog Creator: You Can’t Have AI Agents Without Secrets
Episode 64
If you can’t robustly protect your secrets, you can’t have reliable AI agents.
In this episode, Truffle Security cofounder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins a…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Tigris Data CEO on Building Your Own Datacenters
Episode 63
In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Ovais Tariq, Cofounder and CEO of Tigris Data, to discuss why independent storage …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Pylon: Reimagining B2B Customer Support
Episode 62
Customer support platforms lacked adequate solutions for B2B companies - until Pylon entered the scene.
We sat down with Pylon cofounders Marty Kausas…
4 months ago
Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents
Episode 61
In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies …
4 months, 1 week ago
The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development Stack
Episode 60
AI coding has emerged as a major market for AI: one that’s already rewriting how software gets built.
a16z Infra Partners Yoko Li and Guido Appenzelle…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Material Security CEO: How To Find Your Ideal Customer
Episode 59
What if the hardest part of building a company isn’t the product, but knowing exactly who it’s for?
In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casad…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
When Deepfakes Steal $30M: The New Edge of Cybercrime
Episode 58
AI is transforming both sides of the cybersecurity cat-and-mouse game. Attackers are using LLMs to scale impersonation, phishing, and even deepfake f…
5 months ago
How AI Will Change Photography Forever
Episode 57
What if you could retake your favorite memories years after they happened, fixing the lighting, catching the smile, or even opening your eyes?
In this…
5 months, 2 weeks ago