a16z Podcast: The Art of the Regulatory Hack
If the next 20 years of startup-led tech innovation are going to be about addressing massive problems -- like health, energy, transportation, cities, education, and more -- it will mean more directly ...
17 Mai 201634min
a16z Podcast: On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
Sometimes, our career paths are accidental not intentional... but then it all fits together and makes perfect sense in hindsight. This was especially true for Ezra Klein, who went from writing for his...
12 Mai 201640min
a16z Podcast: On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
Every big technological shift (per Carlota Perez) brings with a structural shift too — an “institutional adjustment” in how companies innovated and build new products, according to Steve Blank and Eva...
11 Mai 201631min
a16z Podcast: Banking on the Blockchain
Whether you think of it as a distributed ledger, decentralized database, computing infrastructure, open source/ software development platform, cryptocurrency, transaction platform, or financial servic...
10 Mai 201639min
a16z Podcast: E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
So many modern e-commerce sites and marketplaces are really digital forms of their physical counterparts, which makes it easier to figure out how to present and sell products online. But in India, whe...
5 Mai 201637min
a16z Podcast: Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
When the iPad first came out in 2010 there was chatter that went in two directions: It’s just a big iPhone I’ll never carry a laptop again Both were wrong. The big iPhone comment was quickly dispell...
28 Apr 201627min
a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Our first instinct as technologists or users of technology is to think of 'connectivity' as digital connectivity -- the internet, our smartphone. But the internet is just the latest in a long line of ...
22 Apr 201632min
a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond
So... about those bots. Bots bots bots. Bots! In this episode of the botcast, a16z partners Benedict Evans and Connie Chan -- along with Chris Messina, longtime advocate of the open web and more -- pu...
19 Apr 201648min
