Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation with Erik Torenberg and Séb Krier, Shear argues that...
17 Marras 20251h 10min
Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the last one. Elliot Hershberg reveals the "three horsem...
14 Marras 20251h 2min
The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the groundwork for the innovations transforming industr...
13 Marras 202544min
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years. Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket CEO) expose how asset inflation turned housing from the Am...
12 Marras 202555min
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR without spending a dollar on advertising.While competito...
11 Marras 202553min
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Cursor CEO Michael Truell joins a16z’s Martin...
10 Marras 202527min
a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'
The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's 2025 State of Crypto report, Daren Matsuoka (Head ...
9 Marras 20251h 38min
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) thinks we're 5 years from automating remote work. Amjad Masad (Replit) thinks we're brute-forcing intelligence without understanding it.In this conversation, two technical fo...
7 Marras 20251h 2min
