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 Okt 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 201433min
a16z Podcast: Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
It’s a problem most entrepreneurs would love to face, a massive valuation offer from investors for the startup they’ve been killing themselves over. But what terms come along with that big number? In ...
8 Sep 201425min
a16z Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
Profitless Ponzi scheme, or the greatest company in the world led by an absolute genius? Amazon is a polarizing company. Quarter after quarter, as it grows ever larger gobbling up categories and addin...
5 Sep 201417min
