a16z Podcast: Why Every Business is in the Data Business
It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In this world, access to data -- and how you ma...
28 Heinä 201522min
a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science
Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". S...
26 Heinä 201541min
a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big
Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organizatio...
24 Heinä 201526min
a16z Podcast: Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee including the subcommittee on Communications an...
22 Heinä 201517min
a16z Podcast: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data -- a lot of the output of our work and activity as humans in fact -- is in the form of words. So what ...
16 Heinä 201534min
a16z Podcast: Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
Bitcoin has had more than its share of drama. There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anonymous founder (or perhaps, founders) Satoshi Nakamoto. More recently, there's been a battle over whet...
10 Heinä 201521min
a16z Podcast: The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
Just a few years ago if you were mayor of Washington D.C. –- or any other city -- you didn’t have to wrap your head around the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, and other companies in the fast-growing 'sharing e...
10 Heinä 201517min
a16z Podcast: Latinos and the Tech Economy -- U.S. Reps. Sanchez and Gallego Talk Bridging the Gaps
There is a gap between the technology industry and the fastest growing portion of today’s workforce and the workforce of the future: Latinos -- argue U.S. Representatives Loretta Sanchez (California) ...
9 Heinä 201524min
