a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
Focusing only on the technical, "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the humanity at the center of why we're doing the thing in the first place. Because systems -- wheth...
21 Mar 201824min
a16z Podcast: How to Live Longer and Better
with Kristen Fortney (@kpfortney), Jeff Kaditz (@jeffkaditz), David Sinclair (@davidasinclair), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Even without a mythical fountain of youth, scientific advances have a...
16 Mar 201817min
a16z Podcast: The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
with Cristina Cordova (@cjc), Augusto Marietti (@sonicaghi), Laura Behrens Wu (@laurabehrenswu), and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) APIs (application programming interfaces), observe the guests in this episod...
13 Mar 201830min
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
What happens when monolithic architectures are broken down into containers and microservices (or when things are broken down into smaller units, not just in infrastructure but perhaps even in company ...
8 Mar 201818min
a16z Podcast: Space -- the Near Frontier
When most people think of space, they think of outer space: Mars, billionaires with rockets, and the “final frontier”. But space innovation is actually playing out right now -- in an immediate and mor...
4 Mar 201814min
a16z Podcast: The State of Security
with Joel de la Garza, Stina Ehrensvärd, Niels Provos, and Martin Casado Given the heated discussions around security and the c-word (“cyber”), it’s hard to figure out what the actual state of the ind...
28 Feb 201817min
a16z Podcast: Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
with Martin Casado (@martin_casado), Michel Feaster (@michelfeaster) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) The purpose of category creation, argue the guests in this episode of the podcast, isn't just about maki...
24 Feb 201831min
a16z Podcast: The Self-Flying Camera
with Adam Bry (@adampbry), Chris Dixon (@cdixon), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Now that we've finally reached the age of the truly autonomous commercial small drone -- and in this case, a self-f...
22 Feb 201823min
