a16z Podcast: A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech world. But the smartphone’s dominance is so complete,...
5 Aug 201522min
a16z Podcast: How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what does make such innovation clusters work? In this s...
1 Aug 201534min
a16z Podcast: These Girls Code
We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation coding competition in San Francisco -- to hear ab...
30 Jul 20156min
a16z Podcast: Why Every Business is in the Data Business
It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In this world, access to data -- and how you ma...
28 Jul 201522min
a16z Podcast: When Bio Meets Computer Science
Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". S...
26 Jul 201541min
a16z Podcast: Big Data Goes Really Big
Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organizatio...
24 Jul 201526min
a16z Podcast: Innovation and Regulation -- What Happens When Policy Lags Behind Technology?
Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee including the subcommittee on Communications an...
22 Jul 201517min
a16z Podcast: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
When most people think of big data they think of numbers, but it turns out that a lot of big data -- a lot of the output of our work and activity as humans in fact -- is in the form of words. So what ...
16 Jul 201534min
