How Global Networks Are Reshaping Startup Success
Elena Burger is joined by a16z’s Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez to discuss the rise of the "borderless founder": entrepreneurs who bring the networks and insights of their home markets together wi...
20 Aug 45min
How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace
a16z General Partner David George is joined by Grant LaFontaine, co-founder of Whatnot, to unpack how a marketplace that started with collectibles evolved into one of the world's leading live shopping...
19 Aug 42min
How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?
a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Nick Warner of Neo and Max Pollard of Cotool to discuss what happens when cybersecurity tools built to defend against humans and malware suddenly have to contend w...
18 Aug 22min
Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less
a16z General Partner David George is joined by Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, to discuss how AI is changing the way Stripe builds products, organizes teams, and thinks about...
17 Aug 54min
Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again
Ben Horowitz, Travis Kalanick, and Erik Torenberg take the stage at Atoms' launch event for a candid fireside conversation about entrepreneurship, company building, and why Kalanick believes the next ...
14 Aug 33min
The Two Ways to Sell AI: Lighthouse or Landgrab?
Elena Burger is joined by a16z's Andy McCall and Joe Schmidt to break down two very different ways AI startups can go to market: the lighthouse and the landgrab. Should founders win a handful of marqu...
13 Aug 44min
Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
Anish Acharya is joined by Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, for a conversation about how AI is rewriting the startup playbook, why founders should be more ambitious than ever, and what tw...
12 Aug 52min
The CISO Playbook for AI Agents | Datadog
a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Emilio Escobar, Chief Information Security Officer at Datadog, to discuss what it takes to secure a company where nearly every employee is using AI and more than 4...
11 Aug 22min
