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
- 913
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
a16z Podcast: Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
The five-year anniversary segment with a16z founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen picks up with a discussion of Clayton Christensen's theories around disruption. Why Christensen's thinking is ver…
a16z Podcast: Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
Around the firm we use “software eats the world” as a guide for how technology will impact every industry and every person – from education to healthcare and government. As a16z marks its five-year a…
a16z Podcast: The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
Jim Barksdale in the run-up to the Netscape IPO told potential investors that you can make money in software in two ways: bundling and unbundling. Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky revisit that thes…
a16z Podcast: The Consumerization of IT
Peter Levine goes deeper into the changing nature of the data center with Yoram Novick, CEO of Maxta, and Florian Leibert, CEO of Mesosphere. Does ARM architecture, the foundation of the chips in pra…
a16z Podcast: Mobile Invades the Data Center
There is a shift in enterprise hardware from expensive, proprietary hardware to cheap components plucked directly from the consumer hardware supply chain. While that trend has been underway for some …
a16z Podcast: An Open Source Business Model That Works
Open source software has permeated practically every nook of the software world. The biggest companies and largest-scale systems all lean heavily on open source code. Yet, with the exception of Red H…
a16z Podcast: The Wearables Session
Fashion, function or just a fad? Wearable technology is getting huge amounts of attention from companies of every size and stripe. Consumers are slapping on fitness bands, experimenting with smart wa…
a16z Podcast: Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
There are great examples of communities helping to grow and solidify online marketplaces. eBay in its early days certainly leveraged the power of community to bring buyers and sellers onto its platfo…
a16z Podcast: The Micro and Macro of Mobile
Apple during its most recent quarter reported growing app store sales and flat iPad sales. Where do tablets go from here, especially in light of the Apple and IBM partnership announced? How does the …
a16z Podcast: Government Transparency Powered by Software
What if we could tap into our government with the same speed and ease as our smartphones and search? Can technology make a difference in how government operates, and how we citizens interact with it?…
a16z Podcast: Protecting Your Company from Itself: Why You Need HR
One of the ways to damage a fast-growing startup is to not have an HR person. But when is the right time to bring someone on? What qualities should you look for? How can you preserve the company cult…
a16z Podcast: When Large Scale Gets Really Massive -- Managing Today’s Enterprise Networks
Managing enterprise networks with thousands of users and endpoints has been hard enough. Now that large enterprise networks routinely include hundreds of thousands of nodes it’s amazingly difficult a…
a16z Podcast: Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
The Google I/O keynote was epic in at least one respect, length. For three hours Google laid out the near horizon for all things Google. This included the next version of Android; a new platform for …
a16z Podcast: Datacenter of the Future
The datacenter has long been -- there's no nice way to put this -- a bit of a snoozer. Expensive boxes running expensive software. No more, says a16z General Partner Peter Levine. Along with Chris Di…
a16zPodcast: People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities -- Groceries
People Marketplaces are a lot like eBay -- connecting buyer and seller -- but for services, says a16z General Partner Jeff Jordan. These two-sided marketplaces are cropping up across the economy, fr…
a16z Podcast: Mapping the Information Economy -- Where’s the Cloud Going Next?
a16z Board Partner Steven Sinofsky and Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie discuss findings from a study of the information economy that has been built on cloud and mobile. The findings were based on …
a16z Podcast: The Promise (and Nightmare) of Cross-Platform Software
The announcement by Apple of its new programming language Swift is prompting developers to consider yet again how to tailor their efforts in the battle between iOS and Android. Benedict Evans and Ste…
a16z Podcast: The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
Benedict Evans is a veteran of Apple’s big events and puts all the announcements and demos into one of three categories: 1) all the cool incremental improvements to the Apple operating systems; 2) th…
a16z Podcast: You Just Thought You Were Building a Software Company. It's a Community.
For Jim Gilliam, the founder of NationBuilder, community is everything. When he needed a double lung transplant, Gilliam turned to the Internet and to his online community to make it happen. He's org…
a16z Podcast: Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Optimizely is a superb example of the democratization of software development. You don't need an engineering degree to fire up Optimizely and start testing how design changes on your website -- down…