World’s Largest Supercomputer v. Biology’s Toughest Problems
Proteins are molecular machines that must first assemble themselves to function. But how does a protein, which is produced as a linear string of amino acids, assume the complex three-dimensional struc...
14 Kesä 202032min
The Return of Home-based Healthcare
The way we deliver healthcare has changed enormously over the last century, shifting from house calls by doctors to your own to institutionalized settings like hospitals and clinics. But now that tren...
12 Kesä 202026min
The Future of Primary Care
Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system, but in some ways never set up for success to begin with. We need a new operating system for primary care—one with a different, dee...
11 Kesä 202030min
All about Section 230: What It Does and Doesn't Say
We cover the tricky but important topic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 law has been in the headlines a lot recently, in the context of Twitter, the president’s tweets, and ...
9 Kesä 202040min
What We Can't Reveal We Can't Heal
Given recent events around George Floyd and far beyond, this special episode of the a16z Podcast features Shaka Senghor, a leading advocate for criminal justice reform (and bestselling author), and Te...
4 Kesä 20201h 1min
SaaS Go-to-Upmarket
For a SaaS company, it's easier to move upmarket than down, and this gives SaaS startups the advantage against incumbents. In this episode, David Ulevitch and our newest enterprise general partner Kr...
29 Touko 202021min
New Fan Engagement Models for Athletes and Influencers
Today’s episode is about a practical application of crypto — namely, the way it can “tokenize” fandom. More broadly, it’s about fan engagement, and the increasingly blurred lines between sports, cultu...
26 Touko 202019min
Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!
Our understanding of the human brain and its disorders has always been limited by our lack of access to living, human, developing brain tissue. For the first time, that's changing. In this episode, Se...
24 Touko 202043min
