a16z Podcast
The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 916
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Inside Apple Software Design
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his care…
Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
In this re-run from September 2018, Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky talk all about Tesla — and more broadly, the nature of disruption overall. How disruptive is Tesla really, and what exactly are …
Designing a Culture of Reinvention
In this episode from September 2020, originally recorded for the Commonwealth Club of California, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hasting talks about his new book "No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Cul…
The Basics of Growth Marketing: Engagement & Retention
After achieving product-market fit and starting to gain users, how do startups then avoid the "leaky bucket" problem of losing users as quickly as they gained them? By focusing on user engagement and…
The Basics of Growth Marketing: User Acquisition
Once known as “growth hacking”, the concept of Growth has now evolved into an entire discipline that spans marketing, product management, user experience, and more. Why? After achieving product-marke…
The Great Data Debate
Over a decade after the idea of “big data'' was first born, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. But the modern data stack is evolving and whi…
Principles for Work and Life
In the face of great uncertainty, how do you make decisions? Can you really apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future, to navigate seemingly new situations and get what you want out…
How the Internet Happened
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com boom, to the applications built on top of it and th…
Technologies & Threads Through the Fabric of Our Lives
original episode notes and transcript here:
https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/textiles-technology-science-math-cultures-civilization/
Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), primary host, and editor S…
Innovating and Deciding, for Companies and People
original episode notes and transcript here:
https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/innovating-in-bets/
Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), primary host, and editor Sonal Chokshi shares three best-of ep…
Geo-engineering and the Power of Narrative
original episode notes and transcript here:
https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/pleistocenepark-geoengineering-iceagebiome/
Longtime podcast showrunner (2014-2022), primary host, and editor Sonal Chokshi…
M&A, Before and After: What Founders Need to Know
Welcome to the a16z podcast. Today we’re talking about the mindsets and frameworks founders should know about when navigating the mergers and acquisitions or M&A process, both before and after – incl…
How 'Hyperscalers' are Innovating — and Competing — in the Data Center
Innovation in the data center has been constrained by the traditional model of suppliers providing fixed-function chips that limit how much the biggest data center operators can differentiate. But pr…
Kickstarting Network Effects
- What are network effects? [1:32]
- How do you cold start and get your first users? [2:33]
- Atomic networks and why minimum viable community is more important than minimum viable product [6:36]
- How do you c…
NFTs, Explained
Given all the activity and interest recently around crypto and web3, as well as in upcoming holidays and art events, we’re re-running our episode all about NFTs (from March 2021) -- where we covered …
Play-to-Earn Gaming and How Work is Evolving in Web3
On container ships, supply chains, and the physical world
"Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World" -- by Ryan Petersen (June 2021). Bio + essay details/ originally appeared at: https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-s…
Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users
Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win
There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it's rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again. …
Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure
There's no question technology played a huge role in the recent/current pandemic, including especially in the plug-and-play engineering and incredibly fast development behind the mRNA vaccines... But…