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
Ben Feder of Tencent America on Games Club
- How Ben took over Take Two [1:42]
- How digital distribution and publishing changed gaming [8:36]
- What is a next generation publisher? [13:51]
- Can publishers add value as tastemakers? [17:36]
- How do you ma…
Robert Smith on Unfettered Conversations with A and Z
- Robert's foundational experiences growing up [3:03]
- His introduction to computers, how he got an internship at Bell Labs, and what he learned there [6:38]
- Why he studied chemical engineering [13:15]
- Wor…
4B with Margit #8: Basecamp and Banning Political Talk
- What happened at Basecamp and could it have gone differently? [3:51]
- When did Basecamp turn into a 4B? [7:45]
- Why were buyouts a good policy for Basecamp and Coinbase? [10:26]
- Why not have a more moder…
Breach of the Week #4: Red Teaming iOS Vulnerabilities with Cedric Owens
- What are red teams and blue teams? [2:03]
- How Cedric cracked Mac Gatekeeper [6:55]
- Apple's response [15:22]
- Cedric's craziest hack [19:24]
- Red team advice for the blue team [22:02]
- Audience Q&A [26:31]
🔐Br…
a16z Bio + Health #13: Care After COVID with Shantanu Nundy
On this episode of the a16z Bio Clubhouse Show, a16z general partners Vineeta Agarwala, Julie Yoo, Vijay Pande, and Jorge Conde talk to guest Shantanu Nundy, the Chief Medical Officer of Accolade. Th…
a16z Infra #4: Segmenting the Data Analytics Stack
- Why does it feel like there's a database for everything? [4:46]
- What is the actual use case and market for streaming? [9:34]
- How real is real time? [20:12]
- Can you do everything in SQL? [25:08]
- Is the fu…
Boss Talk #12: The AI Edition
- What is AI? [2:27]
- AI is statistics, not consciousness [7:05]
- Why then so much talk about the singularity? [12:12]
- AI breakthroughs and FAANGs [17:21]
- Building the AI toolchain [26:07]
- AI applications in …
4B with Margit #7: Building Brand Communities
In this episode:
- Melody McCloskey - CEO of StyleSeat, a booking platform that connects stylists and beauty professionals with clients. Since its founding in 2011, StyleSeat has powered 150 million be…
a16z Bio + Health #12: Talking Price Transparency and Patient Engagement with Florian Otto
Boss Talk #11: Second Time Founder with Sanjit Biswas (Samsara)
Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesda…
GTM #1: The New Enterprise Go to Market with Figma
Inside sales, field sales, product-led, channel sales, marketing, post-sales… a16z GTM is our clubhouse show for enterprise founders and builders about what it takes to go to market and the evolving…
One on One with A and Z #8: Which will last longer Harvard or the US?
a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz answer questions on tech trends, company building, and more live on Clubhouse Mondays at 7pm PT.
In this conversation:
- Which institution will last long…
4B with Margit #6: How Startups Can Work with Government and Policy Makers
In this episode:
- Jim Messina - CEO, The Messina Group; formerly Obama's Deputy Chief of Staff; known as the "fixer" and "the most powerful person in Washington you've never heard of"
- Adrian Durbin - c…
a16z Bio + Health #11: The Digital Health OGs
People Behind the Product #1: YouTube and the Evolution of the Creator Economy
In this episode:
- Jamie Byrne, Senior Director of Creator Partnerships, YouTube
- Shishir Mehrotra, former Director of Product Management, YouTube; former VP of Product, Engineering, UX, YouTube; current…
One on One with A and Z #7: The NFT Renaissance
a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz answer questions on tech trends, company building, and more live on Clubhouse Mondays at 7pm PT.
In this conversation:
- NFTs and tokenization — how will …
a16z Infra #3: What Microsoft Can Teach Us about Technical Product Leadership at Scale
a16z Infra is the Clubhouse Show where the a16z enterprise team and guests discuss the foundational technology and products that underpin all of tech. We dig deep into data, AI/ML, security, develope…
a16z Bio + Health #10: The Digital Health Difference with Connie Chen
Technology & Talent for Defense with Anduril
Anduril founders and team members Joe Chen, Matt Grimm, Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, and Trae Stevens in conversation with Big Ideas show on Clubhouse co-host Katherine Boyle (along with Antonio Ga…
Boss Talk #10: The Story is the Strategy with Dave McJannet
On this episode of Boss Talk:
- How do the best product marketers see and explain a trend?
- How much is the best marketing truth vs. spin?
- Does the marketing function create the strategy or execute on it…