a16z Podcast

with Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) and Bharath Ramsundar

Deep learning has arrived in the life sciences: every week, it seems, a new published study comes out... with code on top. In this episode, a16z G…

with Van Jones (@VanJones68), Shaka Senghor (@ShakaSeghnor), and Chris Lyons (@clyons)

True redemption can be hard to come by in our justice system today. And yet, we need it more than ever before. I…

with Andrew Lo (@AndrewWLo) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio)

The advent of new gene and cell therapies are beginning to approach that holy grail of medicine—that of a possible cure. But they are also…

with Laurene Powell Jobs (@LaurenePowell) and Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz)

Laurene Powell Jobs is, among many other things, founder and President of the Emerson Collective -- the social impact firm she …

with David Ulevitch (@davidu) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)

Since the startup (and founder) journey doesn't go neatly linear from technical to product to sales, tightening one knob (whether engineering …

Do you sometimes wish you had been born in a different decade so you could have worked on the fundamental building blocks of modern computing? How fun, challenging, and fulfilling would it have been …

with Emily Oster (@ProfEmilyOster) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread)

Are chia seeds actually that good for you? Will Vitamin E keep you healthy? Will breastfeeding babies make them smarter? There’s …

with @annieduke, @pmarca, and @smc90

Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage -- and every individual, whether for themselves or others -- makes countless decisions every day, un…

In a followup to one of our most popular podcast episodes which originally aired in April 2017 (https://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoins/), a16z Crypto Fund General Partner Chr…

As companies digitize, they change the way they make decisions: decisions are made lower in the organization, based on data, and increasingly automated. This creates opportunities for startups creati…

with Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio), Julie Yoo (@julesyoo), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread)

Building a software company in healthcare is hard -- and comes along with unique challenges no other entre…

In this episode of the a16z Podcast -- which originally aired as a video on YouTube -- general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and co-founder of TrialPay) talks with …

with Nick Quah (@nwquah), Connie Chan (@conniechan), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)

It's a podcast about podcasting! About the state of the industry, that is. Because a lot has changed since we recorded …

with Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) and Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)

What does Apple's recent event — in which a range of new services was announced, from Apple News Plus to Apple TV Plus to the Apple…

with Safi Bahcall (@safibahcall), Vijay Pande (@vijaypande), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)

A "moonshot" is a destination (like going to the moon, quite literally) -- but nurturing "loonshots" (which oft…

with Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman), Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)

The writer-showrunner is a relatively new phenomenon in TV, as opposed to film, which is still a director…

with George Church (@geochurch) and Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio)

Renowned scientist George Church is known for his groundbreaking work and methods used for the first genome sequence, and for his work…

with Peter Ludwig, Qasar Younis (@qasar), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90)

When people talk about autonomous vehicles, we hear everything from "we're much closer than you think" to "we're much further than…