a16z Podcast: From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
An aerospace engineer who worked for NASA for over 40 years, Dr. Christine Darden is one of the mathematicians that the book and movie Hidden Figures was based on. Darden eventually would lead the son...
22 Mar 201738min
a16z Podcast: The Storage Renaissance
As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important. It might not be sexy, but storage is what makes th...
21 Mar 201722min
a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), those companies have all the data; surely we can’t beat...
17 Mar 201721min
a16z Podcast: Build Your Personal Brand
Your brand, says head of a16z marketing and Outcast Agency co-founder Margit Wennmachers, is what people say about you when you're not in the room. And it's going to happen, whether you choose to have...
13 Mar 201731min
a16z Podcast: The Business of Healthcare
Starbucks supposedly spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. And 20 years ago, says Rajeev Singh, CEO of Accolade, healthcare was 10% of GDP; today it’s 19% -- that's nearly one-fifths...
9 Mar 201717min
a16z Podcast: The Genetics Of Drug Delivery
In this episode of the a16z Podcast introduced by Vijay Pande (based on a presentation at our summit event), Russ Altman, Stanford professor of bioengineering -- and former chairman of their Bioengine...
7 Mar 201714min
a16z Podcast: Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
The irony of our systems working so well -- technological, corporate, and yes, even political -- is that we've become too comfortable: matching to others just like us, producing less, taking fewer ris...
1 Mar 201737min
a16z Podcast: The Future of... You
Humans have always wanted to enhance themselves -- from getting nutrition just-right to optimizing their performance, whether in sports or health or work. And food is a big part of all that. But our c...
28 Feb 201719min
