a16z Live
a16z Live is the place to listen to recorded live discussions and events featuring, hosted, or co-hosted by a16z partners (with outside voices too).
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 146
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
How Startups are Fixing Healthcare Friction
What if the biggest lever for improving U.S. healthcare isn’t clinical, but operational?
In this episode, recorded live at New York Tech Week, a16z General Partner David Haber speaks with Trey Holterm…
What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
For the past 20 years, consumer technology has been shaped by the same form factors: apps and touchscreens on smartphones. But advances in AI, wearables, and hardware could introduce an entirely new …
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
Technology doesn’t grow in isolation—it evolves in waves. Just as mobile, cloud, and social shaped the internet of the past 20 years, so too could crypto, AI, and new hardware usher in an era of the …
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
Anduril reimagined how startups can build software and hardware for the defense sector. Now, they're using AI to reimagine modern warfare.
Speaking with a16z Growth General Partner David George, Andu…
In The Vault: How AI is Powering Payments with Greg Ulrich
How does a company as massive as Mastercard decide where to deploy AI? Instead of centralizing every AI initiative, Mastercard operates under a “hub and spoke” model — balancing centralized AI leader…
How Jack Henry is Modernizing Banking Infrastructure
Most financial institutions still bank on software built before the internet, but Jack Henry's CTO, Ben Metz, is leading a quiet revolution to change that. Speaking with a16z General Partner Angela S…
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz
a16z Partner Seema Amble talks with MongoDB and Viam co-founder Eliot Horowitz about building sustainable open source software tools. From challenging Oracle to building the de facto cloud-based data…
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
a16z Partner Seema Amble connects with Zapier co-founder Wade Foster about the company’s founding and GTM success utilizing a product-led growth (PLG) strategy. Chock-full of actionable insights, thi…
How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
In this episode, a16z Partner Seema Amble chats with Tomer London, co-founder of Gusto, about establishing product-market fit and product discovery. London shares how Gusto, now valued at ~$10 billio…
How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
High-performance compute is the bedrock of generative AI, and if there’s anyone who knows about high-performance chips, it’s AMD CEO Lisa Su. In this wide-ranging conversation with a16z Operating Par…
a16z Growth's David George on His Frameworks for Late-Stage Investing
Finding and backing companies that can reach escape velocity is the name of the game over here at a16z Growth—but picking those winners is far from easy. David George, head of the a16z Growth fund, s…
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core …
In the Vault: Assessing AI Impact vs. Hype with John Stecher of Blackstone
a16z general partner David Haber talks to John Stecher, Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone, where he advances cutting-edge technology, heads up innovation investing, and advises the firm’s invest…
In the Vault: AI and Banking Innovation with Tim Karpoff of Citi
a16z general partner David Haber and fintech partner Marc Andrusko talk to Tim Karpoff, the Global Head of Strategy at Citi, where he guides the bank’s core focus areas, as well as future investment …
Building the World’s Most Trusted Driver with Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov joined a16z general partner David George to discuss how Waymo is using genAI to help them build safer, sustainable, and more accessible transportation. In the conversation,…
Bringing Production-Ready GenAI to the Enterprise
As genAI expands through the enterprise, many leaders are figuring out how to evolve their genAI prototypes into production-ready tools. Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty and LangChain CEO Harrison Chase disc…
In the Vault: Public Market and Macro Perspectives with Mark Casey of Capital Group
In this episode, which took place at a16z's Connect Fintech event, a16z General Partner David George interviews Capital Group's Mark Casey on his investment philosophy, what sends him into what he ca…
In the Vault: New Applications in Fintech with Plaid’s Zach Perret and Marqeta’s Simon Khalaf
In this conversation, which took place at a16z's Connect Fintech event, a16z General Partner Angela Strange, Plaid CEO and cofounder Zach Perret, and Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf discuss how AI will shap…
In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs
In a new episode of In the Vault, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, …
In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan
In a new episode of In the Vault, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with Jeff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bet…