a16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to Everything
Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer on the WeChat phenomenon, a16z partner Connie Chan analyzed WeChat and the notion of app-within-app...
28 Elo 201543min
a16z Podcast: When Software Eats Cars
After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their attention and capital towards? The answer, argues a16...
25 Elo 201527min
a16z Podcast: Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, they weren’t. “There is this swallow-the-red-pill m...
20 Elo 201549min
a16z Podcast: The Internet is His Religion
How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about getting them anyway? And in the middle of that mental and physical storm, how do you find the thing that...
18 Elo 201523min
a16z Podcast: Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever more critical. Whether it’s for dating or sending money, you want to trust that not only are you int...
17 Elo 201521min
a16z Podcast: Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz)
This special episode of the a16z Podcast is based on a Q&A from an early screening we hosted of Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton, the story of the group N.W.A. that revolutionized music and ...
15 Elo 201546min
a16z Podcast: Getting That First Board Seat
When you're going for a board interview -- especially when it's your first board seat -- you're actually not supposed to go into it advocating for yourself and trying to convince people that you're a ...
13 Elo 201520min
a16z Podcast: Is It Possible to Achieve Equitable Equity for Startup Employees?
There's been a lot of activity lately around trying to improve equity compensation (for example, by removing tax liabilities that handcuff them). Or by making equity more equitable in other ways; as f...
7 Elo 201523min
