a16z Podcast: Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
NFC (near field communication) technology has been around for about a decade, and with the exception of transit cards mostly outside the United States it’s gone nowhere. Now Apple has debuted Apple Pa...
10 Syys 201433min
a16z Podcast: Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
It’s a problem most entrepreneurs would love to face, a massive valuation offer from investors for the startup they’ve been killing themselves over. But what terms come along with that big number? In ...
8 Syys 201425min
a16z Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
Profitless Ponzi scheme, or the greatest company in the world led by an absolute genius? Amazon is a polarizing company. Quarter after quarter, as it grows ever larger gobbling up categories and addin...
5 Syys 201417min
a16z Podcast: Building Brands and Running Retail -- Ron Johnson and Tristan Walker Break It Down
Given that physical retail is expensive, what’s the right distribution mix for startups? In this podcast with Tristan Walker (who is building health and beauty brand Walker & Company from scratch), we...
3 Syys 201427min
a16z Podcast: Three Kids, One App, One Love -- The Five-O Story
Teenage siblings Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian from Atlanta, Georgia join Ben Horowitz for a discussion about the motivation and origins of their new app, Five-O. In the aftermath of the tragedy in Fe...
28 Elo 201413min
a16z Podcast: Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2
The five-year anniversary segment with a16z founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen picks up with a discussion of Clayton Christensen's theories around disruption. Why Christensen's thinking is very...
26 Elo 201416min
a16z Podcast: Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
Around the firm we use “software eats the world” as a guide for how technology will impact every industry and every person – from education to healthcare and government. As a16z marks its five-year an...
25 Elo 201427min
a16z Podcast: The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
Jim Barksdale in the run-up to the Netscape IPO told potential investors that you can make money in software in two ways: bundling and unbundling. Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky revisit that thesi...
15 Elo 201419min
