The Challenge of Replicating Reality
What would you do if you believed in an idea but everyone said it would fail, nobody would fund you, and the industry was experiencing a nuclear winter?Despite experiencing exactly that, Sandbox VR fo...
22 Helmi 202356min
The 1000x Developer
A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers generating some of the highest paying salaries ...
16 Helmi 20231h
The State of Apps
A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, billion! — since the launch of the App Store in 2008, highlighting the cast opportunity in the marketpla...
9 Helmi 20231h 4min
Disrupting the World’s Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs, founders, or journalists – had something to say.But ...
7 Helmi 202349min
Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging
In this cross-over episode from Bio Eats World, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to discuss the ...
3 Helmi 202336min
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023.Emerging from this exercise came 40+ builder-...
27 Tammi 20231h 8min
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023.Emerging from this exercise came 40+ builder-...
24 Tammi 20231h 22min
The Human Behind the Genius
In this special episode, we share never heard before footage from Steve Wozniak alongside his cofounder and best man, Alex Fielding. Listeners get an inside look into what drove Woz to building a comp...
19 Tammi 202322min
