a16z Podcast: Tools for How We Work Today
You've heard the story: Slack began as a game. But almost exactly 1 year ago today, the internal tool the team built for its own use became a team communication app that anyone (and especially enterpr...
11 Feb 201538min
a16z Podcast: Searching for Mobile's Third OS
Consumers seem content with the mobile duopoly we currently have. So what can be gained from a third mobile operating system? If it's an open computing platform, argues Cyanogen CEO and co-founder Kir...
7 Feb 201522min
a16z Podcast: Crisis Time -- What to Do When Things Go Sideways
A crisis can be an opportunity to change your culture. But you have to get through the crisis first, and that starts with getting to the truth of what happened. a16z's Margit Wennmachers, who co-found...
3 Feb 201527min
a16z Podcast: Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
Apple absolutely crushed its most recent quarter, and unquestionably owns the high-end of the smartphone market, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. So where does Android fit in the ecosystem going forward? W...
30 Jan 201528min
a16z Podcast: Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
Virtual reality (VR) -- and augmented reality (AR) -- seem to be everywhere these days, showing up in demos and offerings from the world's biggest gadget makers to the Hollywood, gaming, and media cro...
27 Jan 201530min
a16z Podcast: Coding as Literacy
Tracy Chou from Pinterest, and Chris Granger and Jamie Brandon from Eve, discuss whether coding is a literacy (or as Granger puts it, a "superpower" ). But as software infuses every industry and much ...
19 Jan 201524min
a16z Podcast: The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things?
Does your burglar alarm need to speak to your thermostat? What about your lighting system? And if all those things need to interoperate, how does that happen -- and what does that look like on the she...
9 Jan 201518min
a16z Podcast: Dumb Storage Gets Smart
Storage as a set of technologies in the datacenter has a conservative reputation when it comes to innovation. Reliability, capacity, speed, and cost -- those have long been the only levers to pull in ...
19 Dec 201421min
