a16z Podcast: Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
Apple included support for ad blocking in its recent iOS 9 update, and for many that prompted discussions around an age-old question: Is traditional advertising a viable business model for content -- ...
25 Syys 201525min
a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: get some senior technical experts to help with the t...
21 Syys 201535min
a16z Podcast: Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
The internet as it has evolved in the United States is perhaps the best example of “permissionless innovation” -- the idea that you can innovate without first waiting for permission or clearance. And ...
17 Syys 201522min
a16z Podcast: The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
Legendary investor Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's financial partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) invokes a set of interdisciplinary "mental models" involving economics, business, psychol...
11 Syys 201532min
a16z Podcast: Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
Apple has once again shown it absolutely dominates the high-end for smartphones, and no other company is likely to knock it from its perch in the near term, says a16z's Benedict Evans. But does it con...
10 Syys 201526min
a16z Podcast: Code and Culture in South Central Los Angeles
South Central Los Angeles -- which includes Watts and Compton -- in many ways still hasn’t recovered from the Rodney King riots of 1992. In South Central L.A. there isn’t the same opportunity found el...
7 Syys 20157min
a16z Podcast: Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
Many of the most successful companies have their foundations in university labs -- from data science to the web browser itself. Yet the process of moving from research project to successful startup is...
5 Syys 201547min
a16z Podcast: Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on edge these days: the question of how best t...
2 Syys 201527min
