a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and build new products, according to Steve Blank and Eva...
11 Touko 201631min
a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development platform, cryptocurrency, transaction platform, or financial servic...
10 Touko 201639min
a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterparts, which makes it easier to figure out how to present and sell products online. But in India, whe...
5 Touko 201637min
a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions: It’s just a big iPhone I’ll never carry a laptop again Both were wrong. The big iPhone comment was quickly dispell...
28 Huhti 201627min
a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But the internet is just the latest in a long line of ...
22 Huhti 201632min
a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond
So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots! In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict Evans and Connie Chan -- along with Chris Messina, longtime advocate of the open web and more -- pu...
19 Huhti 201648min
a16z Podcast: Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
Developers are more than just influencers inside the enterprise -- they're now buyers, too. That's a huge shift from before, when only IT and other departments had that kind of purchasing power. (It's...
14 Huhti 201625min
a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of Sales
The hallmark of many great technical founder/CEOs is that they envision a better way of doing things, and that's why they're building a company that delivers on that better way, often disrupting the w...
8 Huhti 201640min
