a16z Podcast: Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things puts intelligence into all kinds of things -- especially in the home, from appliances to light bulbs and door locks. But we still have a ways to go. “We need to be very patient ...
13 Dec 201415min
a16z Podcast: Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
After years of being shut off to the world -- Myanmar is opening itself up. Not just across physical borders, but also the digital. What happens when the vast majority of a population suddenly has acc...
8 Dec 201433min
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
