a16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
with Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, and Steven Sinofsky Modern technology owes much to the introduction of the binary digit or "bit", first proposed by Claude Shannon in "A Mathematical Theory of Communicat...
3 Aug 201729min
a16z Podcast: The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
There are the things that you carefully plan when it comes to an IPO -- the who (the bankers, the desired institutional investors); the what (the pricing, the allocations); and the when (are we ready?...
24 Jul 201730min
a16z Podcast: Making a (Really) Wild Geo-Engineering Idea Real
Here’s what we know: There’s a pair (father and son) of Russian scientists trying to resurrect (or rather, "rewild") an Ice Age (aka Pleistocene era) biome (grassland) complete with (gene edited, lab-...
18 Jul 201730min
a16z Podcast: Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
In the age of virality, what does it actually mean to be popular? When does popularity -- or good product design, for that matter -- cross over from desire and engagement... to addiction? Journalist a...
15 Jul 201726min
a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains
This episode of the a16z Podcast takes us on a quick tour through the themes of economics/historian/journalist Marc Levinson's books -- from An Extraordinary Time, on the end of the postwar boom and t...
11 Jul 201733min
a16z Podcast: The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
A funny thing happened on the way to quantum computing: Unlike other major shifts in classic computing before it, it begins -- not ends -- with The Cloud. That's because quantum computers today are mo...
30 Jun 201725min
a16z Podcast: Companies, Networks, Crowds
Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon? Not yet, argue Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in the new book Machine, Platform, Crowd. But t...
29 Jun 201735min
a16z Podcast: Lobbying Tech
What is lobbying, really? Is it “white", "heavy-set" men "playing golf" and making arrangements in "smoke-filled back rooms”? It's not like that anymore, according to two lobbyists who join this episo...
24 Jun 201722min
