a16z Podcast: Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z’s Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things bitcoin on the a16z Podcast a couple months ago, including an issue that has bitcoin developers on edge these days: the question of how best t...
2 Syys 201527min
a16z Podcast: Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
Can digital work fight poverty? Can companies be profitable and also do social good -- especially in a society where the proxy for value is capital and much of that value accrues to platforms? And fin...
31 Elo 201537min
a16z Podcast: Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
Longtime New York Times technology and science writer John Markoff joins the a16z Podcast to discuss our changing relationship with technology and machines ... as well as the changing nature of Silico...
28 Elo 201540min
a16z Podcast: Messaging As the Interface to Everything
Messaging app WeChat tells us a lot about mobile and business in China. In a recent deep-dive primer on the WeChat phenomenon, a16z partner Connie Chan analyzed WeChat and the notion of app-within-app...
28 Elo 201543min
a16z Podcast: When Software Eats Cars
After the smartphone, what business has the global scale (in terms of people and profits) that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their attention and capital towards? The answer, argues a16...
25 Elo 201527min
a16z Podcast: Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
Google, eBay, even the Web itself, in the beginning all of these things appeared as point products, interesting in their way, but small. Of course, they weren’t. “There is this swallow-the-red-pill m...
20 Elo 201549min
a16z Podcast: The Internet is His Religion
How do you face down cancer? Get told you can’t get life-saving organ transplants, and go about getting them anyway? And in the middle of that mental and physical storm, how do you find the thing that...
18 Elo 201523min
a16z Podcast: Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
As more and more of what we do for fun and work- happens online, establishing identity becomes ever more critical. Whether it’s for dating or sending money, you want to trust that not only are you int...
17 Elo 201521min
