Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 2) – Climbing and Entrepreneurship
In part 1 of our series on human performance, we looked at the limits of human potential in climbing and other sports – and how we push those limits through technology and training.In this episode, re...
11 Heinä 202018min
Alex Honnold on Human Performance (part 1) – Where's the Limit?
Is there a limit to what humans can do? And if so, how do you know when you've reached it? Welcome to part one of a two-part series on human performance with professional rock climber Alex Honnold. Al...
11 Heinä 202023min
Why We Shouldn’t Fear AI in Healthcare
"Why We Shouldn’t Fear the ‘Black Box’ of AI (in Healthcare and Everywhere)" by Vijay Pande. First published in the New York Times, January 2018. You can also find and share this article at a16z.com/a...
7 Heinä 20206min
When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China
"When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China" by Connie Chan. First published August 2015. You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/mobilefirstchina Stay Updated:Find...
7 Heinä 202020min
Every Company Is a Fintech Company
"Why Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company -- The Next Era of Financial Services and the 'AWS Phase' for Fintech" by Angela Strange.You can also find and share this essay at a16z.com/fintecheverywhe...
7 Heinä 202015min
Read-Alouds, Continued
Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!).The first was episode #544 in April, It's Time...
7 Heinä 202051s
Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernstein and describes the exponential decrease in bioph...
5 Heinä 20209min
Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on virology and infectious disease dynamics have seen th...
30 Kesä 202034min
