How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
Augusto Marietti, CEO and cofounder of Kong, has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley history.In this conversation with Martin Casado, Aghi shares how he went from a garage in ...
21 Loka 202537min
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Humanity
Reid Hoffman has been at the center of every major tech shift, from co-founding LinkedIn and helping build PayPal to investing early in OpenAI. In this conversation, he looks ahead to the next transfo...
20 Loka 202553min
Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset, and Marc Andreessen thinks it’s long overdue.In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, Marc joins Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle ...
17 Loka 20251h 7min
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
From politics to technology to real estate, Keith Rabois has bold predictions for America’s next decade.In this conversation with Erik Torenberg, Keith breaks down why he believes the U.S. is entering...
16 Loka 202549min
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business
Ben Horowitz founded Loudcloud in the middle of the dot-com bust and sold it for $1.6 billion, then led Andreessen Horowitz from its founding to $46 billion in committed capital. Ali Ghodsi co-founded...
15 Loka 20251h 4min
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
Nathan Labenz is one of the clearest voices analyzing where AI is headed, pairing sharp technical analysis with his years of work on The Cognitive Revolution.In this episode, Nathan joins a16z’s Erik ...
14 Loka 20251h 31min
Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science
From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the needle on scientific progress?We sat down with dist...
13 Loka 202550min
Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?
Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, a16z General Partners Erik Tor...
12 Loka 202552min
