a16z Podcast: Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
It’s well understood that bitcoin can be used to buy and sell things/services, and the ecosystem of people accepting the cryptocurrency as payment is expanding. But what else can we use the underlying...
24 Loka 201429min
a16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company and keep it private forever? And how did Elon Musk ma...
17 Loka 201446min
a16z Podcast: Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
It's a myth that startups happen in isolation. Those legendary two people in a garage are often building on the deep and basic research -- long funded by government and conducted in universities -- th...
2 Loka 201423min
a16z Podcast: For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
Jonah Peretti is building BuzzFeed to “inform, inspire and entertain” in a world where news and entertainment is increasingly passed around on social networks and consumed on smartphones. Chris Dixon,...
18 Syys 201426min
a16z Podcast: Reinventing Media
Software, and the billions of transistors that power it, has brought about massive change to all kinds of industries, but none more so than the news business. Today, distribution doesn’t come from the...
17 Syys 201435min
a16z Podcast: Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment -- Four Steps for Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal and Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover, the authors of "Hooked, How to Build Habit-Forming Products," discuss the theory and practice of the book as the publish date of a new edition approaches. Nir ...
15 Syys 201420min
a16z Podcast: Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
Have we as a culture become expert at globalizing industries, but are we failing when it comes to truly world-changing technological breakthroughs? Is competition bad for business? Should you bother ...
12 Syys 201418min
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
