a16z Podcast: Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Users, entrepreneurs, and investors are harnessing bitcoin’s "workaday utility" in Argentina, a place where bitcoin is arguably more widespread among everyday people than anywhere else. What condition...
19 Mai 201521min
a16z Podcast: Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Andreessen Horowitz Managing Partner Scott Kupor and NetSuite CFO Ron Gill get into the weeds on SaaS valuations, and how public and private SaaS companies think differently about the recurring revenu...
16 Mai 201526min
a16z Podcast: Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
The battle of the pipes has shifted to mobile. Verizon caught plenty of people by surprise when it announced it was buying AOL for $4.4 billion in cash (the cash part deserves a short moment to sink i...
12 Mai 201512min
a16z Podcast: Good Bubbles, Bad Bubbles -- and Where Unicorns Come from
Venture capital and investing in startups is the (modern) classic case of decision making under uncertainty. As new players and sources of capital enter the market, however, how do we hedge against th...
11 Mai 201535min
a16z Podcast: Making Security More Useable
The days of cramming security down employees’ throats or sending out best-practices advice emails are over. “You have to make security more useable,” says Pindrop CEO and co-founder Vijay Balasubraman...
8 Mai 201530min
a16z Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
Enterprises large and small run their applications and infrastructure at a whole new level of agility and speed. But unfortunately, security doesn’t like speed. “The faster you go, the harder it is to...
7 Mai 201525min
a16z Podcast: Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
"Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience," says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of big data intelligence company Adatao. Sure, but then, what IS big data? (e...
1 Mai 201527min
a16z Podcast: Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
If your income can flow from any place on the globe, and you can earn your money on the Internet, the question for individuals and startup teams alike increasingly is: where do I go? In the tech indus...
30 Apr 201535min
