What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO
Henry Ward, cofounder and CEO of Carta, has spent over a decade scaling his company from an early-stage startup to a 2,000-person industry leader. In this a16z Speedrun conversation with Games partner...
7 Mars 202540min
Creativity vs Control: Where AI Fits in the Creative Toolbox
Being a creator in 2025 is tough—but building for creators is even harder. Perhaps no one understands this conundrum better than Scott Belsky. As the founder of Behance, a longtime executive at Adobe,...
25 Feb 202542min
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
Technology doesn’t grow in isolation—it evolves in waves. Just as mobile, cloud, and SaaS shaped the internet of the past 20 years, so too could crypto, AI, and new hardware usher in an era of the int...
20 Feb 202532min
The Critical Technology in Finding Critical Materials
Critical materials like copper, lithium, and gallium have been mined for decades, but their role in core technologies, geopolitics, and the energy transition have come to a height in recent years.In t...
11 Feb 202542min
DeepSeek: America’s Sputnik Moment for AI?
Two words have caught the Internet by storm. DeepSeek. The Chinese reasoning model r1 is rivaling others at the frontier with an open-source MIT license, methods that some claim may be 45x more effici...
6 Feb 202543min
Ben Horowitz Sharing History with Dr. Clarence Jones, MLK's Speechwriter
This week, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz had a rare and invaluable conversation with Dr. Clarence B. Jones, a pivotal figure in American history. Dr. Jones, who served as speechwriter, attorney, and adv...
1 Feb 202555min
How AI Is Changing Warfare with Brian Schimpf, CEO of Anduril
How is AI reshaping modern warfare? Speaking with a16z Growth General Partner David George, Anduril cofounder and CEO Brian Schimpf discusses how AI helps humans make better strategic decisions by sor...
28 Jan 202535min
RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work
Intelligent automation is transforming industries by tackling messy, unstructured workflows that traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA) couldn’t handle. In this episode, a16z partner Kimberly Ta...
22 Jan 202517min
