a16z Podcast: When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
With 15 million fantasy football players angling for the win in thousands of fantasy leagues, ESPN joined Tilt.com for a discussion about how crowdfunding provides a platform for an obsessed community...
12 Marras 201425min
a16z Podcast: What Makes the Valley Work
Don Faul, head of operations at Pinterest and a former U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Commander, grills Marc Andreessen in front of a crowd of veterans at an event we hosted for bringing more veterans into...
11 Marras 201443min
a16z Podcast: Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
It’s always hard to predict how a generational shift in technology will impact the wider world, especially when you are in the trenches building that new technology. It happened with the mainframe com...
31 Loka 201422min
a16z Podcast: Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
It’s well understood that bitcoin can be used to buy and sell things/services, and the ecosystem of people accepting the cryptocurrency as payment is expanding. But what else can we use the underlying...
24 Loka 201429min
a16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company and keep it private forever? And how did Elon Musk ma...
17 Loka 201446min
a16z Podcast: Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
It's a myth that startups happen in isolation. Those legendary two people in a garage are often building on the deep and basic research -- long funded by government and conducted in universities -- th...
2 Loka 201423min
a16z Podcast: For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
Jonah Peretti is building BuzzFeed to “inform, inspire and entertain” in a world where news and entertainment is increasingly passed around on social networks and consumed on smartphones. Chris Dixon,...
18 Syys 201426min
a16z Podcast: Reinventing Media
Software, and the billions of transistors that power it, has brought about massive change to all kinds of industries, but none more so than the news business. Today, distribution doesn’t come from the...
17 Syys 201435min
