a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World
"All of a sudden you can program the world" -- it's the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago, and of the trajectory of past and current technology shifts...
11 Jul 201640min
a16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an outdated relic of when companies used to go public/get...
1 Jul 201632min
a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
with Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), Frank Chen (@withfries2), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups, or academia? Perhaps all three, especially...
28 Jun 201638min
a16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
How far along are we towards the vision of a "cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future" for fintech? We're not quite there yet, argued BuzzFeed News technology reporter Charlie Warzel in a ...
22 Jun 201645min
a16z Podcast: An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Stern professor and researcher Arun Sundararajan, it ma...
16 Jun 201628min
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at its most recent annual developer's conference (WWDC) -- that Apple Pay is coming to the web; that Siri...
14 Jun 201625min
a16z Podcast: Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
The mindset of "move fast and break things", while great for code, isn't exactly great for the human body. So adding computation to biology -- especially in the slow-moving pharmaceutical industry, wh...
14 Jun 201629min
a16z Podcast: Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and compounding in unexpected ways. But just because we don't know exactly what form that tech will take (...
7 Jun 201641min
