The Death of Data Gatekeeping: AI Makes Everyone An Analyst | Hex Cofounder
Most companies still rely on dashboards to understand their data, even though AI now offers new ways to ask questions and explore information. Barry McCardel, CEO of Hex and former engineer at Palanti...
5 Des 20251h 22min
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
Ian Webster built PromptFoo after watching 200 million Discord users systematically dismantle his AI agent—now Fortune 10 companies pay him to break theirs before customers do. The "lethal trifecta" s...
2 Des 202525min
“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five times last year's rate—and 96% aren't coming from AI coding tools. They're everyday people accidental...
28 Nov 202557min
From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington. While Silicon Valley obsesses over AGI apoc...
25 Nov 202546min
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the company where Ryo is now Head of Design. In this...
21 Nov 202552min
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actually programmable. While everyone obsesses o...
18 Nov 202557min
TruffleHog Creator: You Can’t Have AI Agents Without Secrets
If you can’t robustly protect your secrets, you can’t have reliable AI agents.In this episode, Truffle Security cofounder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discuss the emergen...
11 Nov 202528min
Tigris Data CEO on Building Your Own Datacenters
In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Ovais Tariq, Cofounder and CEO of Tigris Data, to discuss why independent storage is so hard, what operating your own datacenters is ...
7 Nov 202538min
