a16z Podcast: If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Technology can be an equalizer, especially as new tools democratize the expertise that was previously held only by a limited few. But is coding really the new literacy -- the fourth “r” -- after read...
8 Dec 201435min
a16z Podcast: Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
VCs wouldn't fund Salesforce ("that obviously won't work") when Marc Benioff began. With the cloud a growing part of practically every company, government, organization, and people's lives, a lot's ch...
5 Dec 201434min
a16z Podcast: Security’s Wakeup Call
The security landscape is changing. Can companies fight back against an increasingly well-armed and sophisticated set of bad players? “I think it is the beginning of a wakeup call,” former deputy secr...
3 Dec 201429min
a16z Podcast: Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
It might seem that culture at a startup is something that is just intuitive. And in the first days, with the first handful of people, that might be true. But the co-founders of Genius.com, Tom Lehman ...
28 Nov 201432min
a16z Podcast: Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
How can ecommerce companies deal with the conflicting expectations of consumers and logistics realities of an on-demand economy? How can they compete with ecommerce giant Amazon, which just gets bigge...
21 Nov 201422min
a16z Podcast: Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
The ease with which we can order anything online masks the tremendous complexity of getting that item to your door in a day or two (or less). Andreessen Horowitz's Jeff Jordan leads a discussion with ...
21 Nov 201457min
a16z Podcast: The Next Phase of 3D Printing
In this wide-ranging discussion about the latest and next consumer and industrial applications for 3D printing, we examine (with Shapeway's Carine Carmy and a16z's Tom Rikert): how the software-driven...
19 Nov 201427min
a16z Podcast: The End of Ownership
What happens when the importance of access to things trumps the value of owning those same things? The end of ownership. From computer hardware, to houses, trucks, cars, and more, the notion of owners...
17 Nov 201438min
