When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/mobilefirstchina Stay Updated:Find...
7 Heinä 202020min
Every Company Is a Fintech Company
"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/fintecheverywhe...
7 Heinä 202015min
Read-Alouds, Continued
Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!).The first was episode #544 in April, It's Time...
7 Heinä 202051s
Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernstein and describes the exponential decrease in bioph...
5 Heinä 20209min
Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on virology and infectious disease dynamics have seen th...
30 Kesä 202034min
Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial
In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescription video game. The game was developed by Akili Inter...
28 Kesä 202017min
Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You
Gross margins are essentially a company's revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers, and it's one of the most important financial metrics a...
27 Kesä 202036min
Building Products for Power Users
As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and allow them to be power users. That is, users who con...
24 Kesä 202023min
